The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities

Method, Theory, Meaning: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies (Munich, 4–7 August, 2013)

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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities explores the use of methods, theories, and approaches from the humanities in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume contains ten essays on topics ranging from New Philology and socio-linguistics to post-colonial thinking and theories of myth.
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Pieter B. Hartog, Ph.D. (2015), is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen. He is the author of Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman World (Leiden, 2017).

Alison Schofield, Ph.D. (2006), University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of Religious and Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Along with other articles and co-edited volumes, she is the author of From Qumran to the Yahad: A New Paradigm of Textual Development for The Community Rule and serves as co-editor of The Dead Sea Scrolls Editions series.

Samuel I. Thomas, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University. He is the author of The ‘Mysteries’ of Qumran: Mystery, Secrecy, and Esotericism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (SBL/Brill, 2009), and a lead editor of A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam (Brill, 2012).
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Factual Overview
List of Authors

Part 1

Sub-Saharan Africa
  Jon Abbink, Victor Adetula, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber

Part 2

African-European Relations
  Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer

Part 3

West Africa
  Victor Adetula

Benin
  Alexander Stroh

Burkina Faso
  Daniel Eizenga

Cabo Verde
  Gerhard Seibert

Côte d’Ivoire
  Jesper Bjarnesen

The Gambia
  Alice Bellagamba

Ghana
  Jennifer C. Boylan

Guinea
  Anita Schroven

Guinea-Bissau
  Christoph Kohl

Liberia
  Franzisca Zanker

Mali
  Bruce Whitehouse

Mauritania
  Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson

Niger
  Klaas van Walraven

Nigeria
  Heinrich Bergstresser

Senegal
  Mamadou Bodian

Sierra Leone
  Krijn Peters

Togo
  Dirk Kohnert

Part 4

Central Africa
  Andreas Mehler

Cameroon
  Fanny Pigeaud

Central African Republic
  Andreas Mehler

Chad
  Ketil Fred Hansen

Congo
  Brett L. Carter

Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Janosch Kullenberg

Equatorial Guinea
  Joseph N. Mangarella

Gabon
  Douglas Yates

São Tomé and Príncipe
  Gerhard Seibert

Part 5

Eastern Africa
  Jon Abbink

Burundi
  Tomas van Acker

Comoros
  Simon Massey

Djibouti
  Nicole Hirt

Eritrea
  Nicole Hirt

Ethiopia
  Jon Abbink

Kenya
  Nanjala Nyabola

Rwanda
  Yolande Bouka

Seychelles
  Anthoni van Nieuwkerk and Jon Abbink

Somalia
  Jon Abbink

South Sudan
  Daniel Large

Sudan
  Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes

Tanzania
  Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier

Uganda
  Volker Weyel

Part 6

Southern Africa
  Henning Melber

Angola
  Jon Schubert

Botswana
  David Sebudubudu

Lesotho
  Roger Southall

Madagascar
  Richard R. Marcus

Malawi
  George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri

Mauritius
  Tor Sellström

Mozambique
  Joseph Hanlon

Namibia
  Henning Melber

South Africa
  Sanusha Naidu

Swaziland
  Marisha Ramdeen

Zambia
  Edalina Rodrigues Sanches

Zimbabwe
  Amin Y. Kamete
All interested in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls within the context of the humanities as a whole.
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