Journal: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Volume: JETS 63:4 (Dec 2020)
Article: Jewish Intertestamental And Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated Again (Part 2)
Author: David W. Chapman

JETS 63:4 (December 2020) p. 789

Jewish Intertestamental And Early Rabbinic Literature: An Annotated Bibliographic Resource Updated Again (Part 2)

David W. Chapman

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Andreas J. Köstenberger

David Chapman is professor of New Testament and Archaeology at Covenant Theological Seminary, 12330 Conway Road, St. Louis, MO 63141. He may be contacted at David.Chapman @covenantseminary.edu. Andreas Köstenberger is research professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology and director of the Center for Biblical Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 5001 North Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, Missouri 64118. He may be contacted at [email protected].

Part 1 of this annotated bibliography appeared in the previous issue of JETS (see that issue for an introduction to this resource). This again is the overall structure: Part 1: 1. General Reference Tools; 2. Old Testament Versions; 3. Apocrypha; 4. Pseudepigrapha; Part 2: 5. Dead Sea Scrolls; 6. Individual Authors (Philo, Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, Fragmentary Works); 7. Rabbinic Literature; 8. Other Early Works from the Rabbinic Period; 9. Addenda to Part 1.

5. Dead Sea Scrolls

While the Dead Sea Scrolls are generally associated with Qumran, properly they also cover discoveries from approximately a dozen other sites in the desert wilderness surrounding the Dead Sea, such as those at Naḥal Ḥever, Murabbaʿat, and Masada. The approximately 930 MSS from Qumran were penned from the 3^rd c. BC through the 1^st c. AD. The Masada texts include Jewish scrolls from the time leading up to the Roman conquest (AD 73) and subsequent Roman documents. The finds at Naḥal Ḥever and Murabbaʿat include documents from the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt (AD 132–135). Other Bar Kokhba era documents are known from Ketef Jericho, Wadi Sdeir, Naḥal Mishmar, and Naḥal Ṣeʾelim (see DJD 38). For a full accounting, see the lists by Tov under “Bibliography” below. The non-literary documentary papyri (e.g. wills, deeds of sale, marriage documents, etc.) are not covered below. Recent archaeological efforts seeking further scrolls from surrounding caves (esp. at Qumran) have yet to yield substantive texts. In the last decade, some attention has been devoted to publishing fragmentary texts purchased by private collectors, but these typically do not have clear provenance, and at least some (perhaps many) appear to have been counterfeited.

There are many theories about the origins of the Qumran DSS, but the traditional scholarly consensus has...