| Portion of title |
Identity and interpretation in early communities of faith |
| Contents |
Site of Qumran and the sectarian communities in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins -- From the earthly to the heavenly temple : lines from the Bible and Qumran to Hebrews and Revelation / Torleif Elgvin -- Scrolls and the scriptures on the margins: remembered in canons or forgotten in caves / Dorothy M. Peters -- Disputed issues in the study of cities, villages, and the economy in Jesus' Galilee / Mark A. Chancey -- Children in house churches in light of new research on families in the Roman world / Margaret Y. MacDonald -- Family buried together stays together: on the burial of the executed in family tombs / Craig A. Evans -- Trial of Jesus at the Jerusalem Praetorium : new archaeological evidence / Shimon Gibson -- Dead Sea scrolls and the interpretation of Scripture / George J. Brooke -- Excavating ideas : the Qumran scrolls of Samuel / Keith Bodner -- Oldest attested Hebrew scriptures and the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription / Stephen J. Andrews -- Biblia Hebraica quinta / James A. Sanders -- What do the earliest Christian manuscripts tell us about their readers? / Larry Hurtado -- Bold claims, wishful thinking, and lessons about dating manuscripts from Papyrus Egerton 2 / Paul Foster. |
| General note | Proceedings from a series of symposia, held respectively at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-244) and indexes. |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| LCCN | 2011029660 |
| ISBN | 9781598568257 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1598568256 (alk. paper) |
