Legal Texts and Legal Issues

Moshe J. Bernstein, Ph.D. (1978), Fordham, is Associate Professor of Bible, Yeshiva University, New York. He is a member of the International Team of Editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls; he has recently completed a six year term as a chair of the Aramaic Studies Section, Society of Biblical Literature. He has published extensively on biblical interpretation in the DSS and has co-edited (with John Kampen) Reading 4QMMT: New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History (Symposium 2; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996). Florentino García Martínez is Professor by special appointment at the Theological Faculty of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he heads the Qumran Institute. He is a member of the international team of editors working on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Executive Secretary of the IOQS. His publications include Qumran and Apocalyptic (Brill, 1992) and The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English (Brill, 1994). John Kampen, Ph.D. (1985), Hebrew Union College, is Professor of New Testament and Academic Dean at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio, and has recently completed a six year term as co-chair of the Qumran section of the SBL. His publications include The Hasideans and the Origin of the Phariseism, and has co-edited Pursuing the Text (with J. Reeves) and Reading 4QMMT: New Perspectives on Qumran Law and History (with M. Bernstein).