Early Jewish Scripture in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran

该项目的重点是1947-1956年从Khirbet Qumran周围洞穴中恢复的“死海古卷”。这些古犹太卷轴直到1991年才完全可用，因此这项研究集中在整个收藏现在告诉我们关于早期犹太教（即公元70年之前）圣经或经文的性质。核心问题包括当时的犹太人是否有一本“圣经”或一本更开放的“经文”，以及一些在公元70年后丢失但在卷轴中重新发现的文本（例如据称来自摩西父亲的暗兰的4 Q异象）是否被认为是圣经或经文。

This project focuses on the 'Dead Sea Scrolls' that were recovered from caves around Khirbet Qumran in 1947-1956. These ancient Jewish Scrolls only became fully available in 1991, and so this research concentrates on what the whole collection now tells us about the nature of the Bible or scripture in Early Judaism (i.e. before 70 CE). Central questions include whetherJews at this time had a 'Bible' or a more open-ended 'scripture' and whether some texts lost after 70 CE but rediscovered among the Scrolls (e.g. 4 Q Visions of Amram purportedly from Moses' father) were deemed biblical or scriptural.