The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture: (144 Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)

Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related disciplines reviewing how scholarship has addressed issues of ancient media in the past, assessing the use of media criticism in current research, and outlining potential directions for future discussions.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Chris Keith 2 Studies in Ancient Media Culture: An Overview  Travis B. Williams Part 1: Past Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 3 Textuality and the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Examination of Modern Approaches and Recent Trends  Travis B. Williams 4 Is There a Spoken Voice in This Cave? Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls  Shem Miller 5 Ritual Studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Review  Michael DeVries and Jutta Jokiranta Part 2: Present Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 6 Book Production and Circulation in Ancient Judaea: Evidenced by Writing Quality and Skills in the Dead Sea Scrolls Isaiah and Serekh Manuscripts  Mladen Popović 7 4Q169 (Pesher Nahum) in Its Ancient Media Context  Pieter B. Hartog 8 The Copper Scroll: The Medium, the Context and the Archaeology  Joan E. Taylor 9 Curated Communities: Refracted Realities at Qumran and on Social Media  Charlotte Hempel 10 Orality and Written-ness in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Where Have We Got to and Where Are We Going?  George J. Brooke 11 Rituals as Media: Shared, Embodied, and Extended Knowledge Mediation in Rituals  Jutta Jokiranta 12 Rations, Refreshments, Reading, and Revelation: The Multifunction of the Common Meal in the Qumran Movement  Cecilia Wassén Part 3: Future Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Media 13 Mediated Textuality: Ambient Orality and the Dead Sea Scrolls  Maxine L. Grossman 14 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A View from New Testament Studies  Chris Keith 15 The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Classicist’s View  William A. Johnson Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

About the Author :
Travis B. Williams, Ph.D. (2011), University of Exeter, is Professor of Religion at Tusculum University. He has published numerous monographs and articles on various topics related to ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge, 2019). Chris Keith, Ph.D. (2008), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. He serves as the editor of the Library of New Testament Studies and his most recent book is The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2020). Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. He has acted as editor for a number of journals and monograph series, and has published a number of monographs, edited nearly twenty books, and 160 articles in the areas of New Testament, Second Temple Jewish, early Christian tradition, and Ethiopian studies, including The Myth of Rebellious Angels (Mohr Siebeck and Eerdmans, 2017).