The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Texts, and Reformulated Issues

This volume contains the published proceedings of the conference on the Dead Sea scrolls, held at Provo, Utah, in July 1996. The 43 articles deal with various aspects of the scrolls and placed under the following divisions: technology; editions and analyses of texts; the Qumran community; calendar; Levi and the priesthood; Messianism and eschatology; and wisdom and liturgy. The volume offers research on a number of issues and topics pertaining to the Qumran commmunity, translated biblical and non-biblical texts, and technological advances that assist scholars and researchers in assessing and studying the scrolls. The section on technology focuses on DNA techniques to analyze scroll fragments and an imaging radar system that has archaeological applications to Qumran and its environs. Another section addresses the question of how and where the Qumranites lived.