The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities explores the use of methods, theories, and approaches from the humanities in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume contains ten essays on topics ranging from New Philology and socio-linguistics to post-colonial thinking and theories of myth.
Pieter B. Hartog, Ph.D. (2015), is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen. He is the author of Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman World (Leiden, 2017).
Alison Schofield, Ph.D. (2006), University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of Religious and Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. Along with other articles and co-edited volumes, she is the author of From Qumran to the Yahad: A New Paradigm of Textual Development for The Community Rule and serves as co-editor of The Dead Sea Scrolls Editions series.
Samuel I. Thomas, Ph.D. (2007), is Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University. He is the author of The âMysteriesâ of Qumran: Mystery, Secrecy, and Esotericism in the Dead Sea Scrolls (SBL/Brill, 2009), and a lead editor of A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam (Brill, 2012).
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Part 1
Sub-Saharan Africa
âJon Abbink, Victor Adetula, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber
Part 2
African-European Relations
âChristine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer
Part 3
West Africa
âVictor Adetula
Benin
âAlexander Stroh
Burkina Faso
âDaniel Eizenga
Cabo Verde
âGerhard Seibert
Côte dâIvoire
âJesper Bjarnesen
The Gambia
âAlice Bellagamba
Ghana
âJennifer C. Boylan
Guinea
âAnita Schroven
Guinea-Bissau
âChristoph Kohl
Liberia
âFranzisca Zanker
Mali
âBruce Whitehouse
Mauritania
âHelena Olsson and Claes Olsson
Niger
âKlaas van Walraven
Nigeria
âHeinrich Bergstresser
Senegal
âMamadou Bodian
Sierra Leone
âKrijn Peters
Togo
âDirk Kohnert
Part 4
Central Africa
âAndreas Mehler
Cameroon
âFanny Pigeaud
Central African Republic
âAndreas Mehler
Chad
âKetil Fred Hansen
Congo
âBrett L. Carter
Democratic Republic of the Congo
âJanosch Kullenberg