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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