A few forthcoming Qumran books have been mentioned on this list, e.g. 3 or 4 more DJD volumes. And orion http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il is very helpful on publications recently in print, and they invite suggested additions and corrections.
Would notes on forthcoming books and dissertations be of interest here? For instance, apparently, Emile Puech's new Copper scroll edition, translation and commentary is now expected in the STJD Brill series (thanks to a note in F. Garcia-Martinez' Copper Scroll Greek letters article, cited at orion). Some publications list dissertations in progress. E.g., Scripta Classica Israelica noted, e.g., Dalia Ayal, "Laws and Customs of the Essenes in the Scrolls," Tel Aviv U., some time ago. I look forward, e.g., to the Matthew Hamilton (Moore Theological College Library) dissertation, who has already amassed extensive information on ancient TaNaK mss. And Weston Fields, I think, is working on a book on Qumran discoveries and the fates of various mss and ownerships. I guess the FM Cross FS, An Eye for Form, will include some Qumran-relevant contributions, among other Festschriften in process. The Paris belles lettres edition (v. 5 part 2) of Pliny's Histoire naturelle passage on Essenes is not yet in print, to my knowledge. And, of course, several archaeological reports are expected, e.g., Y. Magen, Y. Peleg in the Judea and Samaria Publications series; the Brown conference; a scientific volume ed. Jan Gunneweg, etc. Ed Cook recently mentioned an eventual revised Wise Abegg Cook DSS translation volume. Anyway, I, for one, would be interested in reading notices of forthcoming Qumran-related books and dissertations. *** I recently proposed that the "House of Absalom" in pesher Habakkuk referred to the brother of Alexander Yannai, Absalom, the only brother he let live. I intend to look around to see if that proposal has been made before. But, since the literature is so big, if anyone happens to know a publication that previously made that proposal, I'd be interested to learn of it, so I can cite it when the occasion arises. Thanks. best, Stephen Goranson PS, BTW, Gershom Scholem, long a librarian, wrote an interesting memoir, if you like memoirs, From Berlin to Jerusalem (original in German). _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
