The Pesher Habbakuk

(1QpHab)

Professor Timothy Lim has published his new analysis of this scroll, 'The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk'. This is the first major commentary on Pesher Habakkuk for forty years, and includes new readings, and detailed palaeographical, philological, exegetical and historical notes and discussion.   The book is available through Oxford University Press

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Timothy Lim is the Professor of Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Judaism at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

The Damascus Document

Professor Steven Fraade’s new volume on the Damascus Document includes a substantial introduction, new translation with notes, and detailed commentary based on both the ancient manuscripts from the
caves of Qumran and medieval manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza.

The volume considers the text’s laws, scriptural interpretations, hortatory orations, dualistic views of the world and ancient Israel, understanding of the Jerusalem Temple and its sacrificial worship from which the community is in self-imposed exile, attitudes to women, sex, and marriage, and apocalyptic perspective on the “end of time.”

The book is available through Oxford University Press.

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Steven Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism at Yale University in the Department of Religious Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies.

The Rule of the Association

Professor John J. Collins and Dr. James Nati have published their thorough and comprehensive study of one of the most important texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls – The Rule of the Association. This volume offers readers a full treatment of all the textual evidence relating to the Rule of the Association, marking a significant revision of scholarly views of the Qumran community. The volume includes text, translation, and commentary on all these manuscripts, with a substantial introduction that locates the Rule in the context of the sectarian movement.

The book will be published in June 2024, available through Oxford University Press

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Professor John J. Collins is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School.

Doctor James Nati is the Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible & Old Testament Studies at the Jesuit School of Theology.