Holistic Qumran

Trans-Disciplinary Research of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Jan Gunneweg, Annemie Adriaens, Joris Dik (Herausgeber)

Buch | Ledereinband/Edeleinband

228 Seiten

2010
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-18152-6 (ISBN)

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Monotheism is studied through the manuscripts found at Qumran that are in Hebrew and Aramaic and thousand years earlier than the existing Hebrew text, known as the Old Testament. The scientific study of the bio- and material relics found at sectarian Qumran's settlement, caves and cemetery shed light on their culture and religion.

Much of the previous sixty years (1949-2009) have been devoted to the cleaning of the Dead Sea scrolls, their piecing together and their translation. The present volume is a scientific study of the various archaeological relics that have been found in the three units at Qumran: The settlement, the caves with the scrolls and the cemetery. With the aid of neutron activation of Qumran's pottery we established its human relations with neighboring sites, by radio carbon dating we placed the relics in their time frame, by DNA we study the provenance of the animal hides that served the scribes as parchment. The ink is studied for examining the degradation processes that started when the scrolls were written, 2000-2300 years ago.

Contributors include : Annemie Adriaens, Mark Dowsett, Eberhard Lehmann, Yoav Farhi, Jan Gunneweg, L. Bouchenoire, Joris Dik, Lukas Helfen, Peter Reischig, Jorik Blaas, Katharina Galor, Marta Balla, Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Tzviki Rosenberg, Charles Greenblatt, Bridget Murphy, Marine Cotte, Martin Mueller, Johannes van der Plicht, Kaare.L. Rasmussen, Ira Rabin, Oliver Hahn, Wolff, T. Kindzorra, E. Masic, A. Schade, U., G. Weinberg, Andrew Bond, Greg Doudna, Emanuel Tov, Sasja van der Vaart, Alexandra van den Broek, Laura Klerkx and Nanda de Vree.

Jan Gunneweg, Ph.D. 1981 in archaeometry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published many pottery provenance papers with the aid of neutron activation analysis and recently three scientific books on Qumran and the Dead Sea scrolls (2003, 2006, 2009). Annemie Adriaens, Ph.D. (1993) in Chemistry, University of Antwerp, is Professor of Chemistry at Ghent University. She has published extensively on the topic of cultural heritage and science including a review on non-destructive analysis of museum objects (Spectrochimica Acta B 60 (2005) 1503–1516). Joris Dik is associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, Netherlands. He focuses on multidisciplinary activities in materials in art and archaeology.

Contributors include : Annemie Adriaens, Mark Dowsett, Eberhard Lehmann, Yoav Farhi, Jan Gunneweg, L. Bouchenoire, Joris Dik, Lukas Helfen, Peter Reischig, Jorik Blaas, Katharina Galor, Marta Balla, Gila Kahila Bar-Gal, Tzviki Rosenberg, Charles Greenblatt, Bridget Murphy, Marine Cotte, Martin Mueller, Johannes van der Plicht, Kaare.L. Rasmussen, Ira Rabin, Oliver Hahn, Wolff, T. Kindzorra, E. Masic, A. Schade, U., G. Weinberg, Andrew Bond, Greg Doudna, Emanuel Tov, Sasja van der Vaart, Alexandra van den Broek, Laura Klerkx and Nanda de Vree.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah ; 87
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	552 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Technik
ISBN-10	90-04-18152-0 / 9004181520
ISBN-13	978-90-04-18152-6 / 9789004181526
Zustand	Neuware