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Description of  The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: 'Clear a Path in the Wilderness!': Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the ... (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)

900469806X pdf The Sixteenth Orion Symposium celebrated seventy years of Dead Sea Scrolls research under the theme, "Clear a path in the wilderness!" (Isaiah 40:3). Papers use the wilderness rubric to address the self-identification of the Qumran group dimensions of religious experience reflected in the Dead Sea writings biblical interpretation as shaper and conveyor of that experience the significance of the Qumran texts for critical biblical scholarship points of contact with the early Jesus movement and new developments in understanding the archaeology of the Qumran caves. The volume both honors past insights and charts new paths for the future of Qumran studies.