Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- New Approaches -- Exile and Self-Identity in the Qumran Sect and in Hellenistic Judaism -- The Legacy of the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Ritual Density in Qumran Practice: Ablutions in the Serekh Ha-Yahad -- From Enoch to John the Essene-An Analysis of Sect Development: 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Essenes -- Innovative Readings -- Education and Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Light of their Background in Antiquity -- The Use of Scripture in 1Q/4QMysteries -- "Memory and Manuscript": Books, Scrolls, and the Tradition of the Qumran Texts -- The Wood-Offering: The Convoluted Evolution of a Halakhah in Qumran and Rabbinic Law -- Reassessing Old Perspectives -- Further Reflections on a Divine and Angelic Humanity in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Polemic against the Ṭevul Yom: A Reexamination -- Qumran and the Genealogy of Western Mysticism -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources.