James Charlesworth

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He specializes in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old and New Testaments, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Jesus research, and the Gospel of John. Charlesworth is director of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project, working with more than fifty international specialists to produce and publish accurate text with��critical apparatus and English translation. Among his more than ninety books, he is the editor of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and author of The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized.

Visions, Testaments, and Other Documents
This volume of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project contains the text, critical apparatus, translation, and introduction to the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in which the Jewish author claims he has recorded the final words of the twelve sons of Jacob.Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the winter of 1947, the composition was extant only in Greek, Armenian, and Slavonic manuscripts, with late Aramaic and Hebrew copies of some Testaments. The earliest Gre...
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Publication Date: 09/07/2027
Thanksgiving Hymns and Related Documents
The Thanksgiving Hymns have been labeled the mystical gems among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some of them may have been composed by the genius who is known as “the Righteous Teacher” in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Other psalms, hymns, or odes were composed by members of the Qumran community. This volume includes all fragments and all portions of the manuscripts of this superb witness to the height of Jewish poetry and thought before 70 CE and the end of early Judaism. Preliminary work on the major manuscrip...
Price: $75.00
Publication Date: 10/11/2022
Qumran Greek Fragments, Hymns, Prayers, and Related Documents
This volume of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project significantly helps us understand Jewish interpretations of Torah, preoccupations with purity, penchants for creating new prayers, the need to bless the Creator at all times, the sacredness of the land, eschatology, and celebrating the importance of the Creator "God" and "Israel."Thanks to improved images supplied by the Israel Museum and focused research of other specialists, many of these compositions are significantly ...
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Publication Date: 10/22/2024
The Temple Scroll
Will Ship: August 16, 2011. The Temple Scroll is the longest manuscript found in the Qumran Caves and perhaps the most important halakhic composition known from the Second Temple Period. The scroll presents itself as a rewritten Torah, which begins with the renewal of the Sinaitic covenant and then turns to the building of the Temple. This volume of the Dead Sea Scrolls series brings together--for the first time--all of themanuscript witnesses to the Temple Scroll.The Princeton Dead...
Price: $155.00
Publication Date: 08/16/2011