The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture

Media studies is an emerging discipline that is quickly making an impact within the wider field of biblical scholarship. This volume is designed to evaluate the status quaestionis of the Dead Sea Scrolls as products of an ancient media culture, with leading scholars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and related disciplines reviewing how scholarship has addressed issues of ancient media in the past, assessing the use of media criticism in current research, and outlining potential directions for future discussions.

Travis B. Williams, Ph.D. (2011), University of Exeter, is Professor of Religion at Tusculum University. He has published numerous monographs and articles on various topics related to ancient Judaism and early Christianity, including History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge, 2019).

Chris Keith, Ph.D. (2008), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. He serves as the editor of the Library of New Testament Studies and his most recent book is The Gospel as Manuscript: An Early History of the Jesus Tradition as Material Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Professor of New Testament at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München. He has acted as editor for a number of journals and monograph series, and has published a number of monographs, edited nearly twenty books, and 160 articles in the areas of New Testament, Second Temple Jewish, early Christian tradition, and Ethiopian studies, including The Myth of Rebellious Angels (Mohr Siebeck and Eerdmans, 2017).