Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbe Maurice Baillet (1923-1998) / Emile Puech
  • Bibliographie de Maurice Baillet / Emile Puech
  • Sapiential, Liturgical and Poetical Texts from Qumran / F. Garcia Martinez
  • Sapiential texts
  • Wisdom With and Without Apocalyptic / Torleif Elgvin
  • The Determination of Fate by the Oracle of the Lot in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Mesopotamian Literature / Armin Lange
  • 4QcrypA Words of the Maskil to All Sons of Dawn: The Path of the Virtuous Life / Dwight D. Swanson
  • The Addressees of 4QInstruction / Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar
  • Liturgical and Poetical Texts
  • Body Parts in Barkhi Nafshi and the Qualifications for Membership of the Worshipping Community / George J. Brooke
  • Liturgical Communion with the Angels at Qumran / Esther G. Chazon
  • Qumran Prayer Texts and the Temple / Daniel K. Falk
  • The Idea of Holiness in Qumran Poetry and Liturgy / Bilha Nitzan
  • 4QSama and the Royal Song of Thanksgiving (2 Sam 22//Ps 18) / Donald W. Parry
  • Les Psaumes davidiques du rituel d'exorcisme (11Q11) / Emile Puech
  • The Classification Hodayot and Hodayotlike (With Particular Attention to 4Q433, 4Q433a and 4Q440) / Eileen M. Schuller
  • Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament
  • The Notion of Flesh in 4QInstruction and the Background of Pauline Usage / Jorg Frey
  • Aspects of Wisdom in the Gospel of Matthew in Light of the New Qumran Evidence / John Kampen
  • The Wisdom Passage in 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 between Qumran and Proto-Gnosticism / Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn.