Table of Contents Preface VII Acknowledgments XI Abbreviations XIII Introductory Essay: The Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Past and Present 1 The Qumran Library The Qumran Manuscripts: Contents and Significance 27 The Vocabulary of the Qumran Sectarian Texts 57 Sectarian and Nonsectarian Texts from Qumran: The Pertinence and Use of a Taxonomy 101 Between Sectarian and Nonsectarian: The Case of the Apocryphon of Joshua 113 Between Qumran Sectarian and Qumran Nonsectarian Texts: The Case of Belial and Mastema 135 Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha at Qumran 153 The Composite Character of the Qumran Sectarian Literature as an Indication of Its Date and Provenance 171 The Qumran Aramaic Texts and the Qumran Community 185 Themes and Genres in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran 195 The History of the Qumran Community The History of the Qumran Community in Light of New Developments in the Study of the Scrolls 221 http://d-nb.info/1035613565 X Table of Contents Themes in the Qumran Literature Resurrection, Restoration, and Time-Curtailing at Qumran, and in Early Judaism and Christianity 249 4QFlorilegium and the Idea of the Community as a Temple 269 The Volunteers in the Rule of the Community: A Biblical Notion in Sectarian Garb 289 Time, Torah and Prophecy at Qumran 301 Exegesis and Time in the Pesharim from Qumran 315 Texts from Qumran The Apocryphon of Joshua - 4Q522 9 ii: A Reappraisal 335 Two "Scientific" Fictions: The So-Called Book of Noah and the Alleged Quotation from Jubilees in the Damascus Document XVI, 3-4 .. 353 What is the "Book of the Divisions of the Times"? 369 The Pesher on the Periods (4Q180) and 4Q181 385 On Righteous and Sinners: 4Q181 Reconsidered 405 Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C in Perspective 423 Not the Testament ofJudah but the Words of Benjamin: The Character of 4Q538 441 Not Exile in the Desert but Exile in Spirit: The Pesher of Isa 40:3 in the Rule of the Community and the History of the Scrolls Community ... 455 Men as Angels: The Self-Image of the Qumran Community 465 David's Youth in the Qumran Context (1lQPs a XXVIII, 3-12) 473 Abraham the Astrologer at Qumran? Observations on Pseudo-Jubilees (4Q225 2 i 3-8) 489 Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism 499 DJD Volumes Cited in the Bibliography 505 Bibliographic Abbreviations 509 Index of Sources 571 Index of Names and Subjects 607 .