Sacred Times: The Book of Jubilees at Qumran

Given the evidence that Jubilees was so influential at Qumran, this paper seeks to answer the following questions: How did the book of Jubilees understand sacred times in general and the Sabbath in particular? How did its sacred time theology affect the theology of the Qumran community? This paper will not contribute any novel or unique ideas regarding either Jubilees or the Qumran community, as such. It will, however, endeavor to bring the various facets of scholarship on the subjects together, making the relationship between the two more concrete

The Eschatology of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea sect represents a unique view of Second Temple Judaism at an important juncture with the beginning of Jewish Christianity. A study of the eschatological views of the sect provides an historical and theological background for comparison with the views of Jesus and of early Jewish Christianity recorded in the New Testament. It further illustrates why Jewish eschatology should be a course of study within Jewish Studies and New Testament studies

Review of \u3cem\u3eEnoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection\u3c/em\u3e

The article reviews the book Enoch and Qumran Origins: New Light on a Forgotten Connection, edited by Gabriele Boccaccini

The Theology of Paul\u27s Cultic Metaphors: A History of Research (Chapter One of Worship that Makes Sense to Paul)

In this precis of the most significant contributions on the topic of Paul\u27s cultic metaphors, our scope will be limited (wherever possible) by giving attention to the most influential treatments, but special interest will be directed towards those studies focused on non-atonement metaphors and those that concentrate solely on Paul\u27s letters. Finally, we will try to narrow the field of discussion further by attending specifically to what theological conclusions are made

Revisiting Qumran Cave 1Q and its archaeological assemblage

Qumran Cave 1Q was the first site of Dead Sea scroll discoveries. Found and partly emptied by local Bedouin, the cave was excavated officially in 1949 and published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Volume 1) in 1955. Contents of the cave are found in collections worldwide, and in different institutions in Jerusalem and Amman. While the scrolls are the most highly prized artefacts from this cave, in archaeological terms they are part of an assemblage that needs to be understood holistically in order to make conclusions about its character and dating. This study presents all of the known items retrieved from the cave, including those that are currently lost, in order to consider what we might know about the cave prior to its emptying and the changes to its form. It constitutes preliminary work done as part of the Leverhulme funded International Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Caves Artefacts and Archival Sources [IN-2015-067].peer-reviewe

La Ley, las obras y la gracia: Gal 3,10-14 a la luz de Qumran

This contribution tries to present how the texts from Qumran can illuminate some elements of the writings of Paul. Two examples of the language and the terminology used by Paul, as well as a central topic of his theology, are analyzed and clarified by the Qumran texts, not by an improbable genetic relationship or literary dependence, but by the common use of the same source: the Hebrew Scriptures

The Giant in a Thousand Years: Tracing Narratives of Gigantism in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond

This essay is an attempt to organize the Bible’s giants by category and to continue to elevate these figures as a rightful object of scholarly attention