Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Research in the Past Decade and Future Directions
Over the past fifteen years or so, considerable attention has been paid in the scholarly literature to what can be known about the presence or absence of women in the communities that generated and copied the literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This paper will review this discussion with particular attention to how the question(s) has (have) been formulated; where consensus has been achieved; where and why there is still considerable scholarly disagreement; and possible directions for future study.