Notre Dame 2012 – Papers Kasper Dalgaard – Why Qumran “Loved” Melchizedek Deborah Forger – The Shaping of Jesus’ Encounter with a Gentile Woman: How the Gentile Church Obscured the Jewish Ethnicity of Their Lord Justin D. Strong – Judaean Identity in Q Clarisse Ferreira da Silva – Women at the Yahad or Women at Qumran? A Study on Gender in the Damascus Document, the Rule Scroll, Serekh Damascus, and in the Historical Sources Related to the Essenes Daniel Wise – Pious Demonology versus Illicit Witchcraft: Theologizing Magic in Testament of Solomon 19-26 Thomas W. Dilbeck – The Apocalyptic Worldview of the Damascus Document Hervé Gonzalez – Foreseeing the Crisis: The Attribution of Zech 9–14 to the Pprophet Zechariah during the Ptolemaic Period Ingunn Aadland – “The Wonders He Did in Egypt and His Signs” – Judgment or salvation in 4Q185 Isaac W. Oliver – Purifying and Sanctifying Gentile Followers of Jesus: Luke’s Affirmation of Purity and Dietary Laws in Acts 10–11 John Screnock – Questions concerning the Original Language and Provenance of Sirach 24 John F. Quant – Variant Edition or Rewritten Scripture? The Case of Greek Esther Jonathan Trotter – The Unity of Jubilees 5:1-18 Joseph E. Sanzo – Your Impurity is My Purity: The “Jewish” Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg, inv. G 1101 Hilde Brekke Møller – The “Abba” of Jesus within Geza Vermes’ Hasid-theory Jackie Wyse-Rhodes – The Natural World as Testimony and Judgment in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature Oren Ableman – Multi-Headed Beasts and the Roman Emperors Eschatological Antagonists in 4 Ezra 11-12 and Revelation 13 and 17 Ryan C. Stoner – The Embodiment of Time and the Periodization of History as Revealed Wisdom in the Apocalypse of Weeks and 4QInstruction Shlomo Mahn – The Messages of History in Ben Sira, the Animal Apocalypse and Jubilees Sarit Kattan Gribetz – Take to Heart these Instructions: The Shema in the Second Temple Period, a reconsideration Andrew B. Perrin – The Compositional Structure of Dream-Visions in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: A Preliminary Report Elisa Uusimäki – Use of Scripture in 4QBeatitudes: Making Proverbs more Particular? Yedidya Etzion – The Second Temple in Jeremiah Second Temple Literature 2015-04-22 Michal Bloch