Performance, Space, and Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Michael B. Johnson, Ph.D. (2019), McMaster University, is editor of English publications at the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls (HUJI). His research focuses on early Jewish poetry and the reconstruction of Dead Sea Scrolls, with work published in Dead Sea Discoveries and Revue de Qumran.

Jutta Jokiranta, Ph.D. (2006), University of Helsinki, is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Cognate studies, and President of IOQS. She has published widely using social-scientific and cognitive approaches to the Scrolls, including Social identity and Sectarianism in the Qumran Movement (Brill 2013). She is co-editor of the STDJ series.

Molly M. Zahn, Ph.D. (2009), University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale Divinity School. She is the author, most recently, of Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism (Cambridge, 2020), and of numerous articles on the development and interpretation of sacred texts in early Judaism. She is the executive editor of the Brill journal Dead Sea Discoveries and President of IOQS.