The Dead Sea Scrolls ─ Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts

How were Jewish texts produceed and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of bothe scriptural and interpretive traditions, which are---as the Scrolls show so decisively---intimately interlwined? How were texts assembled from a variety of earlier sources, both oral and written? Why were they often attributed to pseudonymous authors from the remote past such as Moses and David? How did the composers of these texts understand the enterprise in which they were engaged? This volume further current debates about Qumran Scribal Practice and the transmission of traditions in Jewish Antiquity. It is published with the conviction that the transmission of traditions and the details of scribal practices---so often treated separately---should be considered in conversation with teach other.

Sarianna Metso, Th.D. (University of Helsinki, 1997) is Associate Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of "The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Brill, 1997) and the Serekh Texts (T&T Clark, 2007)
Hindy Najman, phD. (Harvard University, 1998) is the Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Ancient Judaism in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Najman has published on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo of Alexandria, Ezra- Nehemiah, 4Ezra and the Book of Jubilees. She is the author of Seconding Sinai (Brill, 2003) and Past Renewals (Brill, 2010).
Eileen Schuller, Ph.D. (Harvard University, 1984) is Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Hamilton. She has been involved in editing various Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripls of psalmic and hymnic texts, most recently the re-edition of IQH".