The Past Decade of Qumran Studies: 1997–2007
Schuller lists the documents that have recently become available, noting that “over three hundred of the approximately nine hundred known scrolls have been published in a scholarly editio princeps in this past decade [1997–2007]” In some cases, the quantity of material now available has made it possible to compare multiple copies of texts, leading to new questions about the history of their recension. In addition to these new manuscripts, there are also new reference works. New literary and social-scientific methodologies are adding to understandings of the scrolls and the community that produced them.