Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism -- The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition -- Justifying deviance: the place of scripture in converting to a Qumran self-understanding -- Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture -- Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls -- Controlling Intertexts and Hierarchies of Echo in two thematic eschatalogical commentaries from Qumran -- Pesher and midras in Qumran literature: issues for lexicography -- Genre theory, rewritten Bible and Pesher -- Room for interpretation: an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim -- The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons: a psychodynamic reading of the Qumran scrolls -- The silent God, aboused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of Scriptural exegesis in the Pesharim -- Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls -- What makes a text historical? assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls -- The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.