(Con)textual Perspectives on the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Seventeenth Orion Symposium, held online, invited scholars to present research-in-progress, and to relate their texts to diverse literary, cultural, historical, and methodological contexts, including social sciences and manuscript studies. In some cases, authors reexamined published texts with the help of digital technologies and computational approaches, and suggested new contexts for understanding the significance of minute details. The volume is dedicated to Esther Chazon, who conceived of the symposium, in recognition of her many contributions to the Orion Center and to the field of Scrolls studies.

Ruth A. Clements, ThD (1997) Harvard University, is the Orion Center’s Head of Publications. She coedited The Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy: “Clear a Path in the Wilderness!” (Brill, 2024).

Michael B. Johnson, PhD (2019) McMaster University, is incoming Head of English Publications at the Orion Center. He has published on early Jewish poetry and the digital material reconstruction of Dead Sea Scrolls.

Noam Mizrahi, PhD (2009), teaches in the Department of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and directs the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He publishes on biblical prophetic literature, ancient Hebrew poetry, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, including Pesher Habakkuk (2022).

Michael Segal, PhD (2004), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Father Takeji Otsuki Professor of Bible and Editor of the Hebrew University Bible Project. He has authored monographs on Jubilees and Daniel; edited a textual edition of the Twelve Prophets; and published numerous other studies.