Tag: Qumran
Qumran Biblical Scrolls Database to Ship Soon
What wonderful news just came through from Logos: We are about to begin processing Pre-Pub orders for Qumran Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls Database. For a description of the resource, see here. Oh, happy day. 🙂
Donnerstag Digest (December 2, 2010)
This week in the biblioblogosphere: Bob Cargill notes that, on December 11, the National Geographic Channel will re-air its special on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls.” Brian LePort hypertextually ponders Derridean non-extra-textuality and deconstruction, and he notes twenty-nine doctoral theses that the University of Durham has recently made available. Michael Bird shows how to benefit…
National Geographic’s Recent Special on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls”
For those who may have missed the original special or who might just want to relive it, the National Geographic Channel’s recent documentary on “Writing the Dead Sea Scrolls,” hosted by primarily by Robert Cargill, is available here.
Bromine, Chlorine, and the Temple Scroll
Robert Cargill reports that a recent test conducted by Italian scientists suggests that the Temple Scroll’s papyrus was “cured using water from the Dead Sea.” Cargill also mentions a forthcoming test that could reasonably demonstrate a connection between the scroll’s ink and the water of the Dead Sea. Even if it does so, however, Cargill…
Mburu, Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism
Due out in a little less than one month is the revised version Elizabeth Mburu’s PhD thesis, Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism. In the book, Mburu sets out to demonstrate that the sectarian Qumran document The Rule of the Community, provides linguistic clues which illuminate our understanding of how the author…
Today’s Dead Sea Scrolls Today
A revised edition of James VanderKam’s excellent introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls is making its way to retailers. This new edition “retains the format, style, and aims of the first edition, and the same wider audience is envisaged” (xii). Consequently, this edition includes five primary categories of changes (xii–xiii): Updates to VanderKam’s 1994 first…