Intertextuality and Dialogue
New Approaches to the Scriptural Canon
There have been remarkable, even revolutionary, developments in the study of Early Jewish and Christian origins as a result of fifty years of study of the Judean Desert (so-called Dead Sea) Scrolls. The intense interest on the part of the general public in the Scrolls derives from the fact that most of them come from the period just before the birth of Early Christianity and the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism. Many discoveries from other periods important to biblical study have not yet been published, but there has been nowhere near the clamor calling for open access to those. None of those, however, touch so directly on existential questions of spiritual identity ...
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