"A Continuum imprint."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Jonathan G. Campbell -- The Qumran sect in the context of Second Temple sectarianism / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism / George J. Brooke -- 'Rewritten Bible' and 'parabiblical texts' : a terminological and ideological critique / Jonathan G. Campbell -- Sects from texts : on the problems of doing a sociology of the Qumran literature / Philip R. Davies -- 'Men of perfect holiness' (1QS 7.20) : social-scientific thoughts on group identity, asceticism and ethical development in the Rule of the community / Louise J. Lawrence -- Another look at the land of Damascus : the spaces of the Damascus document in the light of Edward W. Soja's thirdspace approach / Liv Ingeborg Lied -- 'An unauthorized version' : the Temple scroll in narratological perspective / William John Lyons -- The language of gates and entering : on sacred space in the Temple scroll / Jorunn Økland -- 'False teaching, lying tongues and deceitful lips' (4Q169 frgs 3-4 2.8) : the Pesharim and the sociology of deviance / Lloyd K. Pietersen -- Probing the possibilities and pitfalls of post-colonial approaches to the Dead Sea scrolls / Andy M. Reimer.