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General
 
Collins, John J.  Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.  London/New York: Routledge, 1997.
 
Cross, F. M.  The Ancient Library of Qumran, 3rd ed.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.
 
Elledge, C. D.  The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, SBLABS 14. Atlanta/Leiden: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2005.
 
Fitzmyer, Joseph A.  The Dead Sea Scrolls: Major Publications and Tools for Study, rev. ed., SBL Resources for Biblical Study 20.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
 
--------.  Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York: Paulist Press, 1992.
 
Flint, Peter W. and James C. VanderKam, eds.  The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment, 2 vols.  Boston: Brill, 1999.
 
García Martínez, Florentino and Julio Trebolle Barrera.  The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Writings, Beliefs and Practices, trans. Wilfred G. E. Watson.   New York: Brill, 1995; Spanish original, Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 1993.
 
Milik, J. T.  Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea, trans. John Strugnell, SBT 26.  London: SCM, 1959; French original, Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1957.
 
Schiffman, Lawrence H.  Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: The History of Judaism, the Background of Christianity, the Lost Library of Qumran, ABRL.  Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1994.
 
Shanks, Herschel, ed.  Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Reader from the Biblical Archaeology Review.  New York: Random House, 1992.
 
VanderKam, James C.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1994.
 
VanderKam, James C. and Peter Flint  The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2002.
 
Reference Works
 
Abegg, Martin G., Peter W. Flint and Eugene Ulrich.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
 
Avigad, Nahman and Eleazar L. Sukenik.  The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University.   Jerusalem: Magnes/Hebrew University, 1955.
 
Biblical Archaeology Society.  A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.   Washington, D. C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991.
 
Brooke, George J., ed., with Helen K. Bond.  The Allegro Qumran Photograph Collection: Supplement to the Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche, Introduction and Catalogue.  Leiden/New York: Brill/IDC, 1996.
 
Burrows, Millar, John C. Trever and William H. Brownlee.  The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark's Monastery, 2 vols.  New Haven, Connecticut: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1950-1951.
 
Cross, Frank Moore.  "The Development of the Jewish Scripts."  In The Bible and the Ancient Near East (ed. G. E. Wright; Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1961) 170-264.
 
Cross, Frank Moore, David Noel Freedman and James A. Sanders, eds.  Scrolls from the Qumran Cave I: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Order of the Community, The Pesher to Habakkuk.  From Photographs by John C. Trever.  Jerusalem: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 1972.
 
Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.  Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library, 2.  Leiden: Brill, 1999.
 
García Martínez, F., ed.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, 2nd ed.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
 
García Martínez, Florentino and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition.   Leiden/New York: Brill, 1997-1998.
 
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste and A. Chambon.  Fouilles de Khirbet Qumran et de Aïn Feshka I, NTOA, Series Archaeologica 1.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994.
 
Kuhn, Karl Georg.  Konkordanz zu den Qumrantexten.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1960.
 
Lewis, Naphtali, Yigael Yadin and Jonas C. Greenfield, eds.  The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, vol. 1, Greek Papyri and Aramaic Signatures and Subscriptions, JDS 2.  Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Shrine of the Book, 1989.
 
Lim, Timothy H. with Philip S. Alexander.  Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library, 1.  Leiden/ Boston: Brill, 1997.
 
Reed, Stephen A., Marilyn J. Lundberg and Michael B. Phelps, eds.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Catalogue: Documents, Photographs, and Museum Inventory Numbers, RBS 32.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.
 
Schechter, Solomon.  Documents of Jewish Sectaries, vol. 1, Fragments of a Zadokite Work, LBS.  New York: KTAV, 1970; original, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.
 
Schiffman, Lawrence H. and James C. VanderKam, eds.  Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2 vols.  Oxford: Clarendon, 2000.
 
Stegemann, Hartmut.  A Preliminary Concordance to the Hebrew and Aramaic Fragments from Qumran Caves II-X, Including Especially the Unpublished Material from Cave IV, comp. Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, W. G. Oxtoby, and J. Teixidor; prepared by hans-Peter Richter.  Göttingen: privately published, 1988.
 
Tov, Emanuel, ed. with Stephen J. Pfann.  Companion Volume to the Dead Sea Scrolls Microfiche Edition, 2d rev. ed.  Leiden: Brill/IDC, 1995.
 
--------.  The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche: A Comprehensive Facsimile Edition of the Texts from the Judean Desert.  Leiden/New York: Brill, 1993.
 
Various authors.  Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1955-.
These are the critical editions of the scrolls, published in the original languages with translations of non-biblical materials provided.  A complete list of titles is maintained at the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature.
 
Vermes, Geza, ed.  The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 4th ed.  Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995.
 
Vermes, Geza and Martin D. Goodman, eds.  The Essenes According to the Classical Sources, Oxford Centre Textbooks 1.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.
 
Wise, Michael O., Martin G. Abegg, and E. Cook.  The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation.   London: Harper Collins, 1996.
 
Zeitlin, Solomon.  The Zadokite Fragments.  Facsimile of the Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah Collection in the Possession of the University Library, Cambridge, England, JQRMS 1.  Philadelphia: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1952.
 
Biblical Scrolls
 
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Abegg, Martin G., Peter W. Flint and Eugene Ulrich.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.
 
Cross, Frank Moore, David Noel Freedman and James A. Sanders, eds.  Scrolls from the Qumran Cave I: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Order of the Community, The Pesher to Habakkuk.  From Photographs by John C. Trever.  Jerusalem: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 1972.
 
DJD volumes 1-4, 8-9, 12, 14-17, 32.
 
Flint, Peter W., ed.  The Bible at Qumran, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature.   Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.
 
Greenspoon, Leonard J.  "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Bible."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.101-127.
 
Tov, Emanuel.  Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible.  Assen and Aaastricht/Minneapolis: Van Gorcum/Fortress, 1992.
 
Ulrich, Eugene.  "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Text."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.79-100.
 
--------.  The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literture.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999.
 
--------.  "Index of Passages in the Biblical Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.649-65.
 
Additional References
Cross, Frank Moore.  "The History of the Biblical Text in the Light of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert."  Harvard Theological Review 57 (1964) 281-99.
 
Cross, Frank Moore and Shemaryahu Talmon, eds.  Qumran and the History of the Biblical Text.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1975.
 
Pulikottil, Paulson.  Transmission of Biblical Texts in Qumran: The Case of the Large Isaiah Scroll 1QIsa-a, JSPSup 34.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
 
Waard, Jan de.  A Comparative Study of the Old Testament Text in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament, STDJ 4.  Leiden: Brill, 1965.
 
Non-Biblical Scrolls
 
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Avigad, Nahman and Eleazar L. Sukenik.  The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University.   Jerusalem: Magnes/Hebrew University, 1955.
 
Bernstein, Moshe J.  "Pentateuchal Interpretation at Qumran."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.128-59.
 
Burrows, Millar, John C. Trever and William H. Brownlee.  The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark's Monastery, 2 vols.  New Haven, Connecticut: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1950-1951.
 
Cross, Frank Moore, David Noel Freedman and James A. Sanders, eds.  Scrolls from the Qumran Cave I: The Great Isaiah Scroll, the Order of the Community, The Pesher to Habakkuk.  From Photographs by John C. Trever.  Jerusalem: Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, 1972.
 
DJD volumes 1-3, 5 and 5a, 6-7, 9-11, 13, 18-31, 33-38.
 
Flint, Peter W.  "Passages from the Apocrypha and Previously-Known Writings ("Pseudepigrapha") in the Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.666-8.
 
García Martínez, F., ed.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, 2nd ed.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996.
 
García Martínez, Florentino and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, eds.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition.   Leiden/New York: Brill, 1997-1998.
 
Lewis, Naphtali, Yigael Yadin and Jonas C. Greenfield, eds.  The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, vol. 1, Greek Papyri and Aramaic Signatures and Subscriptions, JDS 2.  Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Shrine of the Book, 1989.
 
Newsom, Carol A.  "'Sectually Explicit' Literature from Qumran."  In The Hebre Bible and its Interpreters (ed. W. H. Propp, B. Halpern, and D. N. Freedman; BibJS 1; Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990) 167-87.
 
Schechter, Solomon.  Documents of Jewish Sectaries, vol. 1, Fragments of a Zadokite Work, LBS.  New York: KTAV, 1970; original, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1910.
 
Tov, Emanuel.  "A List of the Texts from the Judaean Desert."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.669-717.
 
Vermes, Geza, ed.  The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 4th ed.   Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1995.
 
Zeitlin, Solomon.  The Zadokite Fragments.  Facsimile of the Manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah Collection in the Possession of the University Library, Cambridge, England, JQRMS 1.  Philadelphia: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1952.
 
Additional References
Abegg, Martin G., Jr.  "Exile and the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (ed. James M. Scott; JSJSup 56; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 111-25.
 
Brooke, George J.  Exegesis at Qumran: 4QFlorilegium in Its Jewish Context, JSOTSup 29.  Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985.
 
--------.  "Isaiah 40:3 and the Wilderness Community."  In New Qumran Texts and Studies: Proceedings of the First Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Paris 1992. (ed. George J. Brooke; STDJ 15; Leiden: Brill, 1994) 117-32.
 
Collins, John J.  "Wisdom Reconsidered, in Light of the Scrolls."  Dead Sea Discoveries 4 (1997) 265-81.
 
Harrington, D. J.  Wisdom Texts From Qumran.  London/New York: Routledge, 1996.
 
Knibb, Michael A.  The Qumran Community, Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World 200 BC to AD 200.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
 
VanderKam, James C.  "Exile in the Jewish Apocalyptic Literature."  In Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (ed. James M. Scott; JSJSup 56; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 89-109.
 
Qumran Archaeology
 
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Broshi, Magen.  "The Archaeology of Qumran."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls, Forty Years of Research (ed. Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport; STDJ 10; Leiden: Brill, 1992) 103-115.
 
Broshi, Magen and Hanan Eshel.  "Residential Caves at Qumran."  Dead Sea Discoveries 6 (1999) 328-48.
 
de Vaux, Roland.  Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1959.  London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
 
--------."Archéologie."  In Les "Petites Grottes" de Qumran (ed. Maurice Baillet, J. T. Milik and Roland de Vaux; DJD 3; Oxford: Clarendon, 1962) 3-36.
 
--------.  "Fouilles de Feshka, Rapport préliminaire."  Revue Biblique 66 (1959) 225-55.
 
--------.  "Fouilles au Khirbet Qumrân, Rapport préliminaire."  Revue Biblique 60 (1953) 83-106.
 
--------.  "Fouilles au Khirbet Qumrân, Rapport préliminaire sur la deuxième campagne."  Revue Biblique 61 (1954) 206-236.
 
--------.  "Fouilles au Khirbet Qumrân: Rapport préliminaire sur les 3e, 4e, et 5e campagnes."  Revue Biblique 63 (1956) 533-77.
 
--------.  "Le matériel archéologique.  La poterie."  In Qumrân Grotte 4.2 (ed. Roland de Vaux and J. T. Milik; DJD 6; Oxford: Clarendon, 1977) 15-20.
 
--------.  La poterie."  In Qumran Cave 1 (ed. Dominique Barthélemy and J. T. Milik; DJD 1; Oxford: Clarendon, 1955) 8-13.
 
Donceel, Robert and Pauline Donceel-Voûte.  "The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran."  In Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects (ed. Michael O. Wise, Norman Golb, John J. Collins, and D. G. Pardee; ANYAS 722; New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994) 1-38.
 
Donceel-Voûte, Pauline E.  "Les ruines de Qumran réinterprétées."  Archeologia 298 (1994) 24-35.
 
Golb, Norman.  Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
 
Hachlili, Rachel.  "Burial Practices at Qumran."  Revue de Qumrân 62 (1993) 247-64.
 
--------.  "The Qumran Cemetery: A Reconsideration."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after their Discovery: Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997 (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with the Shrine of the Book, 2000) 661-72.
 
Hirschfeld, Yizhar.  "Early Roman Manor Houses in Judea and the Site of Khirbet Qumran."   Journal of Near Eastern Studies 57 (1998) 161-89.
 
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste.  "L'espace sacré à Qumrân."  Revue Biblique 101-102 (1994) 161-214.
 
Humbert, Jean-Baptiste and A. Chambon.  Fouilles de Khirbet Qumran et de Aïn Feshka I, NTOA, Series Archaeologica 1.  Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994.
 
Liver, Jacob.  "The Half-Shekel Offering in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature."  Harvard Theological Review 56 (1963) 173-98.
 
Magness, Jodi.  The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002.
 
--------.  "Qumran Archaeology: Past Perspectives and Future Prospects."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.47-77.
 
Patrich, Joseph.  "Khirbet Qumran in Light of New Archaeological Explorations in the Qumran Caves."  In Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects (ed. Michael O Wise, Norman Golb, John J. Collins, and D. G. Pardee; ANYAS 722; New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994) 73-95.
 
Reich, Ronny.  "The Great Miqveh Debate."  Biblical Archaeology Review 19 (2 1993) 52-3.
 
--------.  "Miqwa'ot at Khirbet Qumran and the Jerusalem Connection."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls Fifty Years after their Discovery: Proceedings of the Jerusalem Congress, July 20-25, 1997 (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam; Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society in cooperation with the Shrine of the Book, 2000) 728-31.
 
Sheridan, Susan G.  "Scholars, Soldiers, Craftsmen, Elites?: Analysis of French Collection of Human Remains from Qumran."  Dead Sea Discoveries 9 (2002) 199-248.
 
Steckoll, Solomon H.  "Preliminary Excavation Report in the Qumran Cemetery."  Revue de Qumrân 23 (1968) 323-36.
 
Wood, Bryant G.  "To Dip or Sprinkle?  The Qumran Cisterns in Perspective."  Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 256 (1984) 45-60.
 
Zias, Joseph E.  "The Cemeteries of Qumran and Celibacy: Confusion Laid to Rest?"  Dead Sea Discoveries 7 (2000) 220-253.
 
Additional References
Bar-Adon, Pessah.  "Another Settlement of the Judean Desert Sect at 'En el-Ghuweir on the Shores of the Dead Sea."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 227 (1977) 1-25.
 
Cansdale, Lena.  Qumran and the Essenes: A Reevaluation of the Evidence, TSAJ 60.  Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) 1997.
 
Cook, E.  "What was Qumran?  A Ritual Purification Center."  Biblical Archaeology Review 22 (6 1996) 39, 48-51-73-5.
 
Crown, Alan and Lena Cansdale.  "Qumran--Was It an Essene Settlement?"  Biblical Archaeology Review 20 (1994) 24-36, 73-8.
 
Puech, Émile.  "The Necropolises of Khirbet Qumrân and 'Ain el-Ghuweir and the Essene Belief in Afterlife."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 312 (1998) 21-36.
 
Röhrer-Ertl, Olav, Ferdinand Rohrhirsch and Dietbert Hahn.  "Über die Gräberfelder von Khirbet Qumran, inbesondere die Funde der Campagne 1956.  I. Anthropologische Datenvorlage und Erstauswertung aufgrund der Collectio Kurth."  Revue de Qumrân 19 (1999) 3-46, with foldout "Katalog der Gräberfelder von Khirbet Qumran" following.
 
Sharabani, Marcia.  "Monnaies de Qumran au Musée Rockefeller de Jérusalem."  Revue Biblique 87 (1980) 274-84.
 
Silberman, Neil Asher and Ernest S. Frerichs.  Archaeology and Society in the 21st Century: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Case Studies.  Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 2001.
 
Steckoll, Solomon H., Z. Goffer, H. Nathan and N. Haas.  "Red-Stained Human Bones from Qumran."  Israel Journal of Medical Science 7 (1971) 1219-23; also published in Nature 231 (1971) 469-70.
 
Community Issues
 
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Davies, Philip R.  "Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  Proceedings of the Irish Biblical Association 17 (1994) 55-68.
 
Hempel, Charlotte.  "Community Structures in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Admission, Organization, Disciplinary Procedures."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.67-92.
 
Schiffman, Lawrence H.  The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls, SBLMS 38.  Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
 
Schuller, Eileen.  "Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.117-44.
 
Talmon, Shemaryahu.  "The 'Dead Sea Scrolls' or 'The Community of the Renewed Covenant?'"   In The Echoes of Many Texts: Reflections on Jewish and Christian Traditions.  Essays in Honor of Lou H. Silberman (ed. William G. Dever and J. Edward Wright; BJS 313; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997) 115-45.
 
VanderKam, James C.  "Identity and History of the Community."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.487-533.
 
Additional References
Community Organization and Leadership
Klinghardt, Matthias.  "The Manual of Discipline in the Light of Statutes of Hellenistic Associations."  In Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects (ed. Michael O Wise, Norman Golb, John J. Collins, and D. G. Pardee; ANYAS 722; New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1994) 251-67.
 
Metso, Sarianna.  "Constitutional Rules at Qumran."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.186-210.
 
Stegemann, Hartmut.  "The Qumran Essenes -- Local Members of the Main Jewish Union in Late Second Temple Times."  In The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18-21 March, 1991 (ed. Julio Trebolle Barrera and Luis Vegas Montaner; STDJ 11.1; Leiden: Brill, 1992) 1.83-166.
 
Walker-Ramisch, Sandra.  "Graeco-Roman Voluntary Associations and the Damascus Document."  In Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World (ed. John S. Kloppenborg and Stephen G. Wilson; New York: Routledge, 1996) 128-45.
 
Weinfeld, Moshe.  The Organizational Pattern and the Penal Code of the Qumran Sect: A Comparison with Guilds and Religious Associations of the Hellenistic-Roman Period, NTOA 2.  Fribourg/ Göttingen: Universitatsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986.
 
Wernberg-Møller, Preben.  "The Nature of the YAHAD According to the Manual of Discipline and Related Documents."  In Dead Sea Scrolls Studies 1969 (ALUOS 6; Leiden: Brill, 1969) 56-81.
 
Messiahs and the Last Days
Brooke, George J.  "Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (ed. John Day; JSOTSup 270;Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 434-55.
 
Collins, John J.  "Apocalypticism and Literary Genre in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.403-430.
 
--------.  Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, The Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  New York: Routledge, 1997.
 
--------.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.
 
Davila, James R.  "Heavenly Ascents in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.461-85.
 
Evans, Craig A. and Peter W. Flint, eds.  Eschatology, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature 1.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1997.
 
Knibb, Michael A.  "Eschatology and Messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.379-402.
 
Knohl, Israel.  The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls, trans. David Maisel.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
 
Halakah
General
Goranson, Stephen.  "Others and Intra-Jewish Polemic as Reflected in Qumran Texts."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.534-51.
 
Harrington, Hannah K.  "Biblical Law at Qumran."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.160-85.
 
Schiffman, Lawrence H.  The Halakhah at Qumran, SJLA 16.  Leiden: Brill, 1975.
 
--------.  Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Courts, Testimony, and the Penal Code, BJS 33.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1983.
 
Wacholder, Ben Zion.  The Dawn of Qumran: The Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness, HUCM 8.  Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1983.
 
Discipline
Baumgarten, Joseph M.  "The Cave 4 Versions of the Qumran Penal Code."  Journal of Jewish Studies 43 (1992) 268-76.
 
Economic Issues
Baumgarten, Joseph M.  "The 'Sons of Dawn' in CDC 13:14-15 and the Ban on Commerce among the Essenes."  Israel Exploration Journal 33 (1983) 81-5.
 
Farmer, William R.  "The Economic Basis of the Qumran Community"   Theologische Zeitschrift 11 (1955) 295-308.
 
Flusser, David G.  "Qumran and the Famine during the Reign of Herod."  Israel Museum Journal 6 (1987) 7-16.
 
Mealand, David L.  "Community of Goods at Qumran."  Theologische Zeitschrift 31 (1975) 129-39.
 
Murphy, Catherine M.  Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community, STDJ 40.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.
 
Taylor, Justin.  "The Community of Goods among the First Christians and among the Essenes."  In Historical Perspectives: From the Hasmoneans to Bar Kokhba in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 27-31 January, 1999 (ed. David Goodblatt, Avital Pinnick and Daniel R. Schwartz; STDJ 37; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2001).
 
Marriage and Divorce
Baumgarten, Joseph M.  "The Qumran-Essene Restraints on Marriage."  In Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The New York University Conference in Memory of Yigael Yadin (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman; JSPSup8; JSOT/ASOR Monographs 2; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990) 13-24.
 
Brin, Gershon.  "Divorce at Qumran."  In Legal Texts and Legal Issues: Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Cambridge 1995, Published in Honour of Joseph M. Baumgarten (ed. Moshe J. Bernstein, Florentino García Martínez, adn John I. Kampen; STDJ 23; Leiden: Brill, 1997) 231-44.
 
Fitzmyer, Joseph A.  "Divorce among First-Century Palestinian Jews."  Eretz Israel 14 (1978) 103-110.
 
Holmén, Tom.  "Divorce in CD 4:20-5:2 and 11QT 57:17-18: Some Remarks on the Pertinence of the Question."  Revue de Qumran 18 (1998) 397-408.
 
 
Prayer and Worship
Baumgarten, Joseph M.  "The Purification Liturgies."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.200-212.
 
Chazon, Esther G.  "Hymns and Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 1.244-70.
 
Kugler, Robert A.  "Priesthood at Qumran."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.93-116.
 
Gleßmer, Uwe.  "Calendars in the Qumran Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.213-78.
 
The Scrolls and Judaism
 
Select Bibliography
Baumgarten, Albert I.  The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation, JSJSup 55.  Leiden: Brill, 1997.
 
Beall, Todd S.  Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls, SNTSMS 58.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
 
Bergmeier, Roland.  Die Essener-Berichte des Flavius Josephus: Quellenstudien zu den Essener-texten im Werk des jüdischen Historiographen.  Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1993.
 
Collins, John J.  The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature, ABRL.  New York: Doubleday, 1995.
 
Ginzberg, Louis.  An Unknown Jewish Sect.  New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1976; original 1970.
 
Schiffman, Lawrence H.  From Text to Tradition. A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism.  Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav, 1991.
 
--------.  "The Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.552-71.
 
--------.  Texts and Traditions. A Source Reader for the Student of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism.  Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav, 1998.
 
Additional References
Bilde, Per.  "The Essenes in Philo and Josephus."  In Qumran between the Old and New Testaments (ed. Frederick H. Cryer and Thomas L. Thompson; JSOTSup 290/CIS 6; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 32-68.
 
Cook, Stephen L.  Prophecy and Apocalypticism: The Postexilic Social Setting.   Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.
 
Hengel, Martin.  "The Form of the Essene Community and the Question of Pythagorean Influence."  In Judaism and Hellenism: Studies in Their Encounter in Palestine during the Early Hellenistic Period, 2 vols. (2d ed.; trans. John Bowden; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974; original, Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1969) 1.243-7, 2.164-7.
 
Mendels, Doron.  "Hellenistic Utopia and the Essenes."  Harvard Theological Review 72 (1979) 207-222.
 
Paul, André.  "Flavius Josèphe et les Esséniens."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (ed. Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport; STDJ 10; Jerusalem/Leiden: Magnes Press and Yad Ishak Ben-Zvi/Brill, 1992) 126-38.
 
Petit, Medeleine.  "Les Esséens de Philon d'Alexandrie et les Esséniens."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (ed. Devorah Dimant and Uriel Rappaport; STDJ 10; Jerusalem/Leiden: Magnes Press and Yad Ishak Ben-Zvi/Brill, 1992) 139-55.
 
Rajak, Tessa.  "Ciò che Flavio Giuseppe Vide: Josephus and the Essenes."  In Josephus and the History of the Greco-Roman Period: Essays in Memory of Morton Smith (ed. Fausto Parente and Joseph Sievers; SPB 41; Leiden: Brill, 1994) 141-60.
 
Riaud, Jean.  "Les Thérapeutes d'Alexandrie dans la tradition et dans la recherche critique jusqu'aux découvertes de Qumran."  ANRW, 2.20.2 (ed. Wolfgang Haase; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987) 1189-1295.
 
Riesner, Rainer.  "Das Jerusalemer Essenviertel und die Urgemeinde.  Josephus, Bellum Judaicum V 145; 11QMiqdasch 46, 13-16; Apostelgeschichte 1-6 und die Archäologie."   ANRW, 2.26.2 (ed. Wolfgang Haase; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995) 1775-1922.
 
Schwartz, Daniel R.  "Temple and Desert: On Religion and State in Second Temple Period Judea."  In Studies in the Jewish Background of Christianity (WUNT 60; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] 1992) 29-43.
 
Vermes, Geza.  "Essenes and Therapeutai."  Revue de Qumrân 3 (1962) 495-504.  Reprinted in Post-Biblical Jewish Studies (SJLA 8; Leiden: Brill, 1975) 30-36.
 
--------.  "Essenes--Therapeutai--Qumran."  Durham University Journal 52/n.s. 21 (1960) 97-115.
 
Wacholder, Ben Zion.  Nicolaus of Damascus, University of California Publications in History 75.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
 
The Scrolls and Christianity
 
Select Bibliography
Aune, David E.  "Qumran and the Book of Revelation."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.622-48.
 
Black, Matthew.  The Scrolls and Christian Origins: Studies in the Jewish Background of the New Testament, Brown Judaic Studies 48.  Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1961.
 
Brooke, George J.  "The Scrolls and the Study of the New Testament."   In The Dead Sea Scrolls at Fifty: Proceedings of he 1997 Society of Biblical Literature Qumran Section Meetings (ed. Robert A. Kugler and Eileen Schuller; SBLEJL 15; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999) 61-76.
 
Evans, Craig A.  "Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.573-98.
 
Fitzmyer, Joseph A., S. J.  The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.  [Essays published originally 1987-2000.]
 
--------.  "Paul and the Dead Sea Scrolls."  In The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years: A Comprehensive Assessment (ed. Peter W. Flint and James C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; Boston: Brill, 1999) 2.599-621.
 
Stendahl, Krister, ed.  The Scrolls and the New Testament, Christian Origins Library.  New York: Crossroad, 1992; original 1957.
 
Additional References
Gärtner, Bertil.  The Temple and the Community in Qumran and the New Testament: A Comparative Study in the Temple Symbolism of the Qumran Texts and the New Testament, SNTSMS 1.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
 
Knohl, Israel.  The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls, trans. David Maisel.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
 
Reicke, Bo.  "The Constitution of the Primitive Church in the Light of Jewish Documents."  In The Scrolls and the New Testament (ed. Krister Stendahl; Christian Origins Library; New York: Crossroad, 1992; original 1957) 143-56, 275-6.
 
Stegemann, Hartmut.  The Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, John the Baptist and Jesus.  Leiden/Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brill/Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998; German original, Freiburg: Herder, 1993.
 
Sterling, Gregory E.  "'Athletes of Virtue': An Analysis of the Summaries in Acts (2:41-47; 4:32-35; 5:12-16)."  Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994) 679-96.