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ANTHONY HILHORST, ÉMILE PUECH, and EIBERT TIGCHELAAR (eds.), Flores Florentino: Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Early Jewish Studies in Honour of Florentino García Martínez (JSJSup 122; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2007). Pp. xxviii + 836. $249.
The size and quality of this volume provide an impression of the contribution Florentino García Martínez has made to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early Judaism. The book contains forty-eight articles written by leading scholars to honor García Martínez. The volume was presented to him at the 2007 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.
The festschrift contains the following essays: Émile Puech, "L'ostracon de Khirbet Qumrân (KhQ1996/l) et une vente de terrain à Jéricho, témoin de l'occupation essénienne à Qumrân" (pp. 1-29); John J. Collins, "The Nature and Aims of the Sect Known from the Dead Sea Scrolls" (pp. 31-52); Alessandro Catastini, "Flavio Giuseppe e la filosofia degli Esseni" (pp. 53-62); Étienne Nodet, "Asidaioi and Essenes" (pp. 63-87); Jaime Vázquez Allegue, "Memoria colectiva e identidad de grupo en Qumran" (pp. 89-104); Armin Lange, '"Nobody Dared to Add to Them, to Take from Them, or to Make Changes' (Josephus, Ag. Ap. 1.42): The Textual Standardization of Jewish Scriptures in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls" (pp. 105-26); Katell Berthelot, "Les titres des livres bibliques: le témoignage de la bibliothèque de Qumrân" (pp. 127-40); Corrado Marione, "Qumran Readings in Agreement with the Septuagint against the Masoretic Text: Part Two: Joshua-Judges" (pp. 141-45); Eugene Ulrich, "A Qualitative Assessment of the Textual Profile of 4QSama" (pp. 147-61); Donald W Parry, "The Textual Character of the Unique Readings of 4QSama (4Q51)" (pp. 163-82); Peter W. Flint, "Five Surprises in the Qumran Psalms Scrolls" (pp. 183-95); Devorah Dimant, "The Qumran Aramaic Texts and the Qumran Community" (pp. 197-205); Charlotte Hempel, "The Sons of Aaron in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (pp. 207-24); Johannes Tromp, "Damascus Document IV 10-12" (pp. 225-37); Hugo Antonissen, "Some Aspects of New Jerusalem" (pp. 239-55); Eibert Tigchelaar, "The Imaginai Context and the Visionary of the Aramaic New Jerusalem" (pp. 257-70); Mladen Popovic, "Reading the Human Body and Writing in Code: Physiognomic Divination and Astrology in the Dead Sea Scrolls" (pp. 27 1 -84); Anders Klostergaard Petersen, "Rewritten Bible as a Borderline Phenomenon -...