The Dead Sea scrolls today / James C. VanderKam.

Discoveries
Survey of the manuscripts
The identification of the Qumran group
The Qumran essenes
The scrolls and the Old Testament
The scrolls and the New Testament
Controversies about the Dead Sea scrolls.

1. Discoveries
Introduction
The Qumran discoveries: The first cave
The seven original scrolls
The cave itself
The other caves
The ruins of Qumran
The de Vaux excavations and interpretations
The buildings
The cemeteries
Subsequent studies and interpretations
The buildings
The cemeteries
Methods for dating the discoveries
Methods for dating the texts
Paleography
Accelerator mass spectrometry
Internal allusions
Methods for dating the other archeological remains
Carbon
Pottery
Coins


2. Survey of the manuscripts
Biblical texts: Biblical scrolls
Targums
Tefillin and Mezuzot
Apocryphal and pseudepigraphal texts: Apocrypha
Tobit
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus or the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira)
Letter of Jeremiah (= Baruch 6)
Psalm 151
Pseudepigrapha
Enoch or 1 Enoch
Jubilees
Testaments of the twelve patriarchs
New pseudepigrapha
Other texts: Commentaries on biblical material
Continuous commentaries
The Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab)
The Nahum Commentary (4Q169)
The Commentary on Psalms (4Q171,173)
Thematic commentaries
Florilegium (4Q174)
The Testimonia (4Q175)
The Melchizedek text (11QMelch)
A commentary on Genesis (4Q252)
Paraphrases
Legal texts: The Damascus document
The rule of the community
The Temple scroll
Some of the works of the Torah (4QMMT)
Writings for worship: The cycle of worship
Liturgical texts
Calendrical texts
Poetic compositions
The thanksgiving hymns
Other poems
Eschatological works: The war rule
Texts about the New Jerusalem
Wisdom texts: 4Q184 Wiles of the wicked woman
4Q185 Sapiential work
Instruction
The copper scroll (3Q15)
Documentary texts


3. The identification of the Qumran Group
The case for the Essene hypothesis
The evidence from Pliny the Elder
the contents of the Qumran texts and Essene beliefs and practices
Theology: Determinism
The afterlife
Practice: Nonuse of oil
Property
The pure meal
Bodily functions
Spitting
Problems with the Essene hypothesis
Entry procedures
Marriage
The name Essene
Other theories: Sadducees
Jerusalem origins


4. The Qumran Essenes
A sketch of the Qumran group's history
The pre-Qumran period
The Qumran period: Phase I
Phase II
A sketch of Qumran thought and practice: Predeterminism
The two ways
The community of the New Covenant
Scriptural interpretation: The latter days
Special laws
The Universe
Worship
The end and the messiahs
The Qumran Essenes and their place in Judaism


5. The scrolls and the Old Testament
The test of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
The period of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
The pre-Qumran textual witnesses: The Masoretic text
The Septuagint
The Samaritan Pentateuch
Qumran contributions: The great Isaiah scroll
Qumran agreements with the Septuagint against the Masoretic text: Minor examples
Major Examples: Jeremiah
Samuel
An unusual case
Theories about textual development: A theory of local texts
A theory of textual plurality and variety
successive literary editions
New information about the history of some texts: The Book of Psalms
Daniel 4
A canon of scripture
Evidence outside Qumran: The prologue to Sirach (the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira)
2 Macc 2:13-15
Philo, On the contemplative life 25
Luke 24:44
Matt 23:35
4 Ezra 14:23-48
Josephus, Against Apion 1.37-43
Evidence from Qumran: Criteria
Authoritative books: Books quoted as authorities
Other authoritative books: Jubilees
1 Enoch
The Temple scroll


6. The scrolls and the New Testament
Introduction
Similarities between the scrolls and the New Testament
Language and text: Language
The many
The guardian
Other examples
Text: New Testament papyri in cave 7?
Qumran words and phrases in the New Testament
The Sermon on the Mount
Characters: John the Baptist
Others
Practices: Shared property
The meal
Calendar
Eschatology: Messianism
Biblical interpretation
Teachings
Conclusions


7. Controversies about the Dead Sea Scrolls
Editing and publishing the scrolls
Events since 1989.