Dead Sea Discoveries 33/1 (2026)

 Dead Sea Discoveries 33/1 (2026)

Special Issue: Intersectional Investigations into the Complexity of Social Life in Early Judaism

Edited by Elisa Uusimäki and Hanna Tervanotko

Το τρέχον τεύχος του Dead Sea Discoveries αποτελεί μια σημαντική συμβολή στην κοινωνική ιστορία της πρώιμης ιουδαϊκής κοινωνίας. Οι επιμελήτριες του τεύχους, Elisa Uusimäki και Hanna Tervanotko, θέτουν ως κεντρικό άξονα την έννοια της διαθεματικότητας (intersectionality) και αναδεικνύουν την αναλυτική δυναμική του συγκεκριμένου μεθοδολογικού πρίσματος. Αντί να εξετάζουμε μεμονωμένα κάθε κατηγορία ταυτότητας —γένος, κοινωνική θέση, ηλικία, εθνότητα— η διαθεματική ανάλυση επιτρέπει να βλέπουμε πώς αυτές αλληλοεπιδρούν και πώς διαμορφώνουν σχέσεις ισχύος μέσα σε μια κοινωνία. Το πλαίσιο αυτό, που αρχικά αναπτύχθηκε στις σπουδές φύλου και στις κοινωνικές επιστήμες, εφαρμόζεται εδώ τόσο στα κείμενα της ερήμου της Ιουδαίας όσο και σε αρχαιολογικό υλικό από την Παλαιστίνη.

Τα άρθρα που φιλοξενούνται στο τεύχος αποτελούν επιμέρους μελέτες περίπτωσης, όπου το μεθοδολογικό αυτό πρίσμα εφαρμόζεται σε διαφορετικά παραδείγματα. Οι Millar, Comerford και Atkins επιχειρούν κάτι τολμηρό και πρωτοπόρο: αναδεικνύουν πώς η διαθεματική ανάλυση δεν αφορά μόνο τις ανθρώπινες ταυτότητες, αλλά μπορεί να εφαρμοστεί και στον μη ανθρώπινο κόσμο, καθώς τα ζώα αποτελούν μέρος του κοινωνικού ιστού. Οι αναφορές στα ζώα, για παράδειγμα, στο Χειρόγραφο της Δαμασκού και στον Τωβίτ, αποκαλύπτουν δυναμικές ισχύος που δεν γίνονται εξίσου ορατές αλλού. Ο Martens, στη συνέχεια, εξετάζει το ζήτημα της εκπαίδευσης στην κοινότητα του Qumran και αναθεωρεί προηγούμενες αντιλήψεις, θέτοντας ένα κρίσιμο διττό ερώτημα: τι σημαίνει «εκπαίδευση» σε αυτήν την κοινότητα και κατά πόσο και τα κορίτσια είχαν πρόσβαση σε αυτήν. Στο επόμενο άρθρο του τεύχους, η Palmer φωτίζει ένα μικρό αλλά ενδιαφέρον κείμενο: ένα απόσπασμα από το Χειρόγραφο της Δαμασκού που αφορά την τροφό και δείχνει πώς η ταυτότητα αυτής της γυναίκας —εάν είναι ελεύθερη ή δούλη, Ιουδαία ή ξένη— μπορεί να δημιουργεί καταστάσεις συγκρούσεων σε σχέση με τους κοινοτικούς κανόνες. Τέλος, ο Nam στρέφεται στην οικονομική διάσταση: εξετάζει τα αρχεία του Ketef Jericho και αναδεικνύει ότι οι πρόσφυγες της Ιουδαϊκής Ερήμου δεν είναι απλώς «θύματα» του πολέμου· είναι ενεργοί οικονομικοί δρώντες που διατηρούν αρχεία, εντάσσονται σε δίκτυα συναλλαγών και καλλιεργούν μνήμη, ακόμη και μέσα σε συνθήκες προσφυγιάς.

• 🔓Elisa Uusimäki & Hanna Tervanotko, "Intersecting Identities: Towards a Refined Understanding of Social Life in Early Judaism," 1–24 
• 🔓Suzanna Millar, Charles Peter Comerford & Peter Joshua Atkins, "Blinding Birds, Bartered Bodies, and Bestial Betrothals: Exploring Interspecies Intersectionality in the Damascus Document and Book of Tobit," 25–51 
• John W. Martens, "Was There Universal Education of Girls and Boys in the Qumran Communities?", 52–86 (abstract)
• Carmen Palmer, "The Wetnurse and Her Conflicting Identities in the Damascus Document and Beyond," 87–115 (abstract)
• Roger Sangburm Nam, "Judean Desert Refugees as Economic Actors: Agency and Memory from the Ketef Jericho Archives," 116–141 (abstract)

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The current issue of Dead Sea Discoveries represents a significant contribution to the social history of early Jewish society. The issue's editors, Elisa Uusimäki and Hanna Tervanotko, foreground the concept of intersectionality and highlight the analytical power of this methodological lens. Rather than examining each category of identity in isolation —gender, social status, age, ethnicity— intersectional analysis allows us to see how these categories interact with one another and how they shape relations of power within a society. This framework, originally developed in gender studies and the social sciences, is applied here both to the texts from the Judean Desert and to archaeological material from Palestine.

The articles hosted in this issue constitute individual case studies, in which this methodological lens is applied to different examples. Millar, Comerford, and Atkins undertake something bold and pioneering: they demonstrate how intersectional analysis does not concern only human identities, but can be extended to the nonhuman world as well, since animals form part of the social fabric. References to animals, for instance, in the Damascus Document and in Tobit, reveal dynamics of power that are not equally visible elsewhere. Martens, in turn, examines the question of education in the Qumran community and revisits previous assumptions, posing a crucial twofold question: what does "education" mean in this community, and to what extent did girls also have access to it? In the next article, Palmer sheds light on a small but fascinating text: a passage from the Damascus Document concerning the wetnurse, showing how this woman's identity —whether she is free or enslaved, Jewish or foreign— can give rise to situations of conflict in relation to the community's regulations. Finally, Nam turns to the economic dimension: he examines the Ketef Jericho archives and demonstrates that the refugees of the Judean Desert are not simply "victims" of war; they are active economic agents who maintain records, participate in networks of exchange, and cultivate memory, even under conditions of displacement.

• 🔓Elisa Uusimäki & Hanna Tervanotko, "Intersecting Identities: Towards a Refined Understanding of Social Life in Early Judaism," 1–24 
• 🔓Suzanna Millar, Charles Peter Comerford & Peter Joshua Atkins, "Blinding Birds, Bartered Bodies, and Bestial Betrothals: Exploring Interspecies Intersectionality in the Damascus Document and Book of Tobit," 25–51 
• John W. Martens, "Was There Universal Education of Girls and Boys in the Qumran Communities?", 52–86 (abstract)
• Carmen Palmer, "The Wetnurse and Her Conflicting Identities in the Damascus Document and Beyond," 87–115 (abstract)
• Roger Sangburm Nam, "Judean Desert Refugees as Economic Actors: Agency and Memory from the Ketef Jericho Archives," 116–141 (abstract)

Dead Sea Discoveries 32/3 (2025)

 Dead Sea Discoveries 32/2 (2025)

• Jeffrey M. Cross, "Out of Many, One: The Sons of Zadok and the Compositional Coherence of the Cave 1 Rule Scroll (1QS-1QSa-1QSb)," 273–307 (OA)
• Wenyue Qiang,  "'Lest the King be Captured': Legal Scripturalization in the King’s Guards Law of the Temple Scroll," 308–342 (OA)
• Michael Press,  "Fake Dead Sea Scrolls: Towards a Full History," 343–377 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 29/2 (2022)

• Annie Calderbank, "Reading for Resonance: Divine Presence and Biblical Hermeneutics in the Temple Scroll," 123–154 
• Bryan Elliff, "Decrees for the “Volunteers” of the People: The Function of the Pesher of the Well in the Context of the Damascus Document," 155–172 (abstract)
• Ariel Feldman - Faina Feldman, "'Make Me a Sanctuary': Revisiting 4Q364 (4QRPb) 15," 173–182 
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• Bronson Brown-deVost, "What Has Esther to Do with Qumran?" 183–198 (abstract)

Review Essay

• Jonathan Klawans, "Shapira’s Deuteronomy, Its Decalogue, and Dead Sea Scrolls Authentic and Forged," 199–227 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 29/1 (2022)

• Michael B. Johnson, "Getting a Handle on 1QIsaiahb: A New Proposal for the So-Called Handle Sheet of 1QHodayota," 1-26 (abstract)
• Yonatan Adler, "Two Types of Four-Compartment Tefillin Cases from the Judean Desert Caves," 27-51 (abstract) 
• Michael R. Jost, "The Liturgical Communion of the Yaḥad with the Angels:  The Origin of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Reconsidered,"  52-75
• Anna Shirav, "The Social Context of 4QInstruction Reconsidered:  Wisdom, Inheritance and Priesthood in 4Q418 frg. 81," 76-103 

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 28/3 (2021)

Special Issue: Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday

• Arjen Bakker, Jutta Jokiranta, Hindy Najman, "Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday," 275–282 
• Carol A. Newsom, "Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching," 283–298 (abstract)
• Friedhelm Hartenstein, "'May My Musings Please Him' (Psalm 104:34):  On the Transformation of Inner Self-Awareness in Wisdom Psalms," 299–340 (abstract)
• Ishay Rosen-Zvi, "The Rhetorical Self in Tannaitic Halakha," 341–366 (abstract)
• Phillip M. Lasater, "The Heart of Self Formation: The Overlap of Moral Selfhood and Legalities in Ancient Scriptural Discourse," 367–395 
• Ingrid E. Lilly, "The Corporeality of the Self:  The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome," 396–422 (abstract)
• David Lambert, "Biblical Narrative as Ethics? The Limits of Exemplarity in Ancient Jewish Literature," 423–447 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 28/2 (2021)

• Nicholas A. Meyer, "Born of Woman, Fashioned from Clay: Tracking the Homology of Earth and Womb from the Hebrew Bible to the Psalms of Thanksgiving," 135–178 (abstract)
• Hanneke van der Schoor, "The Assessment of Variation: The Case of the Aramaic Levi Document," 179–206 (abstract)
• Hyun Woo Kim, "The Intertextual Rhetoric of the Apostrophe to Zion (11QPsaXXII, 1–15): A Literary and Theological Reconfiguration of Lamentations," 207–225 (abstract)
• Daniel A. Machiela, "Some Proposed Connections between the Visions of Amram and the Four Kingdoms in View of the Aramaic Literature from Qumran," 226–245 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 28/1 (2021)

• Carol A. Newsom, "A Farewell to the Hodayot of the Community," 1–19 (abstract)
• Årstein Justnes - Josephine Munch Rasmussen, "More Dubious Dead Sea Scrolls: Four Pre-2002 Fragments in the Schøyen Collection," 20–37 
• Laura Quick, "Bitenosh’s Orgasm, Galen’s Two Seeds and Conception Theory in the Hebrew Bible," 38–63 
• Eibert Tigchelaar, "Two Damascus Document Fragments and Mistaken Identities:  The Mingling of Some Qumran Cave 4 and Cave 6 Fragments,"  64–74 (abstract)
• Henryk Drawnel, "The Cairo Genizah Fragment of the Visions of Levi from the University of Manchester Library," 75–108 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

 Dead Sea Discoveries 27/3 (2020)

Special Issue: The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira

• Daniel Machiela, "Introduction: The Ongoing Study of Hebrew in the Qumran Literature and Ben Sira," 331–334
• Adina Moshavi, "Is There a Negative Polarity Item ‮דבר‬‎ in DSS Hebrew?" 335–350 (abstract)
• Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé, "Negative Polarity in ‮כל‬‎ Constructions in Qumran Hebrew," 351–371 (abstract)
• Femke Siebesma-Mannens, "Double Object Constructions in DSS Hebrew: The Case of ntn," 372–391
• John Screnock, "Verbal Argument Structure in the War Scroll," 392–409
• Aaron D. Hornkohl, "The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Tiberian Reading Tradition: Shared Departures from the Masoretic Written Tradition," 410–425
• Molly M. Zahn, "When Linguistics and Literarkritik Meet: Revisiting the Periphrastic Participial Construction in the Temple Scroll," 426–438 (abstract)
• Alec Kienzle, "Register and Rhetoric: Linguistic Register and Rhetorical Technique in 4QMMT and the Damascus Document," 439–454 (abstract)
• Eric D. Reymond, "Thoughts on the Language of Sirach 36:1–22," 455–474 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 27:2 (2020)

• James Nati, "The Rolling Corpus: Materiality and Pluriformity at Qumran, with Special Consideration of the Serekh ha-Yaḥad,"  161–201 (abstract)
• Nadav Sharon, "'Four Kingdoms' in the Dead Sea Scrolls? A Reconsideration," 202–233 (abstract)
• Laura Quick, "The Hidden Body as Literary Strategy in 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman (4Q184)," 234–256 
• Rick Bonnie, Matthew Goff, Jutta Jokiranta, Suzie Thomas and Shani Tzoref, "Professional Ethics, Provenance, and Policies: A Survey of Dead Sea Scrolls Scholars," 257–293 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 27:1 (2020)

• Robert Jones, "Priesthood and Cult in the Visions of Amram: A Critical Evaluation of Its Attitudes toward the Contemporary Temple Establishment in Jerusalem," 1-30 (abstract)
• Ethan Schwartz, "The Exegetical Character of 1QS 3:13–4:26," 31–65 (abstract)
• Yonatan Adler, "The Impurity of Stone Vessels in 11QTa and CD in Light of the Chalk Vessel Finds at Kh. Qumran," 66–96 (abstract)
• Betsy Halpern Amaru, "Omission, Created Ambiguity, and Chronology in the Book of Jubilees," 97–122 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 26:3 (2019)

• Jutta Jokiranta - Jessica M. Keady, "Introduction," 273–279 
• Katie Edwards - Johanna Stiebert, "Gender in Biblical Studies: a Brief Overview," 280–294 (abstract)
• Jessica M. Keady, "A Gendered Reading of Purity and Boundaries: 4QTohorot A (4Q274) as a Case Study," 295–313 (abstract)
• Ari Mermelstein, "Conceptions of Masculinity in the Scrolls and the Gendered Emotion of Anger," 314–338 (abstract)
• Maxine L. Grossman, "Sectarian Marital Practice: Rethinking the Role of Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls," 339–361 (abstract)
• Philip F. Esler, "Female Agency by the Dead Sea: Evidence from the Babatha and Salome Komaïse  Archives," 362–396 (abstract)
• Eileen M. Schuller - Cecilia Wassén, "Response: Past and Present Trends—Future Trajectories," 397–412 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 26:2 (2019)

• Dennis Mizzi & Jodi Magness, "Provenance vs. Authenticity: An Archaeological Perspective on the Post-2002 “Dead Sea Scrolls-Like” Fragments," 135–169 (abstract)
• Ayhan Aksu, "A Palaeographic and Codicological (Re)assessment of the Opisthograph 4Q433a/4Q255," 170–188 (abstract)
• Rebekah Haigh, "Oral Aspects: A Performative Approach to 1QM," 189–219 (abstract)
• Gareth Wearne, "The Priestly Referent of 4QMMT B 64–72 and Its Implications for the Organization and Origin of the Text," 220–237 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 26:1 (2019)

• Ariel Feldman and Faina Feldman, "4Q147: An Amulet?" 1–29 (abstract)
• Rony Kozman, "Ezekiel’s Promised Spirit as adam’s Revelatory Spirit in the Hodayot," 30–60 (abstract)
• Eibert Tigchelaar, "Pesher on the True Israel, Commentary on Canticles? Józef Milik’s Designations for Unidentified Qumran Cave 4 Manuscripts on Museum Plates 303 and 304," 61–75 (abstract)
• Paul Cizek, "Legislating the Lips:  Revisiting Vows and Oaths in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document," 76-99 (abstract) 

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 25:3 (2018)

The Damascus Document 

• Shira J. Golani and Jutta Jokiranta, "Introduction," 289-297
• Paul J. Kosmin, "Damascus: From the Fall of Persia to the Roman Conquest," 299-318 (abstract)
• Jean-Sébastien Rey, "Codicological Reconstruction of the Cairo Damascus Document (CD A) and 4QDa," 319-334 (abstract)
• James M. Tucker and Peter Porzig, "Between Artefacts, Fragments, and Texts: An Analysis of 4Q266 Column I," 335-358 (abstract)
• Stefan Beyerle and Andreas Ruwe, "A Comparison of the “Penal Code” in the Damascus Document and in the Serekh ha-Yaḥad from a Literary Perspective," 359-384 (abstract)
• Liora Goldman, "The Admonitions in the Damascus Document as a Series of Thematic Pesharim," 385-411 (abstract)
• Steven D. Fraade, "History (?) in the Damascus Document," 412-428 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 25:2 (2018)

• Michael Brooks Johnson, "One Work or Three? A Proposal for Reading 1QS-1QSa-1QSb as a Composite Work," 141-177 (abstract)
• Ariel Feldman, "New Light on the Ten Jubilees of 11QMelchizedek (11Q13)," 178-184 (abstract)
• Angela Kim Harkins, "Another Look at the Cave 1 Hodayot: Was CH I Materially Part of the Scroll 1QHodayota?," 185-216 (abstract)
• Andrew R. Krause, "Community, Alterity, and Space in the Qumran Covenant Curses," 217-237 (abstract)
• Eric D. Reymond, "The Scribe of 1QS, 1QSa, 1QSb, 4Q53 (4QSamc), 4Q175 and Three Features of Orthography and Phonology," 238-254 (abstract)

Στο τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / In the current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 25:1 (2018)

• Meike Christian, "The 'Sons of Seth': A New Interpretation of 4Q417 1 i 14–16," 1-14 (abstract)
• Shem Miller, "'Sectual' Performance in Rule Texts," 15-38 (abstract)
• Brett Maiden, "Psychological Essentialism in Serek ha-Yaḥad and the Two Spirits Treatise," 39-56 (abstract)
• Pierre Van Hecke, "Computational Stylometric Approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls: Towards a New Research Agenda," 57-82 (abstract)
• Kasper Siegismund, "Once Again on Word Order in the War Scroll (1QM)," 83-106 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 24:3 (2017)

• Pieter B. Hartog - Jutta Jokiranta, "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context," 339-355 (abstract)
• Benjamin G. Wright, "Were the Jews of Qumran Hellenistic Jews?," 356-377 (abstract)
• Dennis Mizzi, "From the Judaean Desert to the Great Sea: Qumran in a Mediterranean Context," 378-406 (abstract)
• Benedikt Eckhardt, "Temple Ideology and Hellenistic Private Associations," 407-423 (abstract)
• Hanna Tervanotko, "Reading God’s Will? Function and Status of Oracle Interpreters in Ancient Jewish and Greek Texts," 424-446 (abstract)
• Mladen Popović, "Reading, Writing, and Memorizing Together: Reading Culture in Ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls in a Mediterranean Context," 447-470 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 24:2 (2017)

• Eibert Tigchelaar, "A Provisional List of Unprovenanced, Twenty-First Century, Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments," 173-188 (abstract)
• Kipp Davis et al., "Nine Dubious “Dead Sea Scrolls” Fragments from the Twenty-First Century," 189-228 (abstract)
• Kipp Davis, "Caves of Dispute: Patterns of Correspondence and Suspicion in the Post-2002 'Dead Sea Scrolls' Fragments," 229-270 (abstract)
• Julia Rhyder, "'The Temple which You Will Build for Me in the Land': The Future Sanctuary in a Textual Tradition of Leviticus," 271-300 (abstract)
• Kengo Akiyama, "Reproof in CD 9:2–8 and 1QS 5:24–6:1: A Note on a Curious Omission," 301-306 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 24:1 (2017)

• Annette Yoshiko Reed, "Writing Jewish Astronomy in the Early Hellenistic Age: The Enochic Astronomical Book as Aramaic Wisdom and Archival Impulse," 1-37 (abstract)
• Justin L. Pannkuk, "Prayers of the Antediluvian Patriarchs: Revisiting the Form and Function of 4Q369 Prayer of Enosh," 38-58 (abstract)
• Pieter B. Hartog, "'The Final Priests of Jerusalem' and 'The Mouth of the Priest': Eschatology and Literary History in Pesher Habakkuk," 59-80 (abstract)
• Wally V. Cirafesi, "'Taken from Dust, Formed from Clay': Compound Allusions and Scriptural Exegesis in 1QHodayota 11:20–37; 20:27–39 and Ben Sira 33:7–15," 81-111 (abstract)
• Yonatan Adler, "Remains of Tefillin from Naḥal Ṣeʾelim (Wadi Seiyal): A Leather Case and Two Inscribed Fragments (34Se 1 A–B)," 112-137 (abstract)

Το τρέχον τεύχος του DSD / The current issue of DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries 23:3 (2016)

• George J. Brooke, "New Perspectives on the Significance of the Scrolls for the New Testament and Early Christian Literature," 267-279 (abstract)
• Cecilia Wassen, "The Use of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Interpreting Jesus’s Action in the Temple," 280-303 (abstract)
• Loren T. Stuckenbruck, "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Insight into Traditioning Processes and the Growth of Gospel Traditions," 304-328 (abstract)
• Benjamin Wold, "Genesis 2–3 in Early Christian Tradition and 4QInstruction," 329-346 (abstract)
• Serge Ruzer, "Eschatological Failure as God’s Mystery: Reassessing Prophecy and Reality at Qumran and in Nascent Christianity," 347-364 (abstract)
• Yair Furstenberg, "Initiation and the Ritual Purification from Sin: Between Qumran and the Apostolic Tradition," 365-394 (abstract)