This volume considers the transmission of interpretive traditions and the details of scribal practices. The essays explore the variety of ways that texts are interpreted at Qumran and also re-evaluates sectarian categorizations of texts along with distinctive scribal practices.

John J. Collins, Tradition and Innovation in the Dead Sea Scrolls James C. VanderKam, Moses Trumping Moses: Making the Book of Jubilees James L. Kugel, Some Translation and Copying Mistakes from the Original Hebrew of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs Carol A. Newsom, Why Nabonidus? Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources Mladen Popovic,The Emergence of Aramaic and Hebrew Scholarly Texts: Transmission and Translation of Alien Wisdom Charlotte Hempel, Shared Traditions: Points of Contact Between S and D George J. Brooke, Aspects of the Physical and Scribal Features of Some Cave 4 "Continuous" Pesharim Emanuel Tov, Some Thoughts About the Diffusion of Biblical Manuscripts in Antiquity Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, Assessing Emanuel Tov's "Qumran Scribal Practice" Eugene Ulrich. The Evolutionary Production and Transmission of the Scriptural Books Florentino Garcia Martinez, Beyond the Sectarian Divide: The "Voice of the Teacher" as an Authority-Conferring Strategy in Some Qumran Texts