Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-423) and index.

Preliminary material / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter One. Introduction / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Two. Nābî’, Pesher, and predictive prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Three. Prophets and progressive revelation: The presentation of the prophets as lawgivers in the Dead Sea Scrolls / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Four. Biblical prophetic epithets in Transition I: Prophetic ‘visionaries’ / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Five. Biblical prophetic epithets in Transition II: Prophetic ‘Anointed Ones / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Six. The ‘Man Of God’ and prophetic ‘servants’ from the Bible to Qumran / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Seven. The prophet at the end of days: The development of a tradition / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Eight. The juridical eschatological prophet in the Dead Sea Scrolls / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Nine. The eschatological prophet of consolation in the Dead Sea Scrolls / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Ten. Revelatory exegesis: The turn to literary prophecy / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Eleven. Revelatory exegesis in second temple literary traditions / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Twelve. Sapiential revelation: wisdom and prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Thirteen. Sapiential revelation in apocalyptic literature preserved at Qumran / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Fourteen. The persistence of prophecy in the late second temple period / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Fifteen. Sapiential revelation in second temple judaism / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Sixteen. Prophecy and law in the Qumran community / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Seventeen. Revelatory exegesis at Qumran / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Eighteen. Sapiential revelation at Qumran / A.P. Jassen -- Chapter Nineteen. Conclusions / A.P. Jassen -- Bibliography / A.P. Jassen -- Index of ancient sources / A.P. Jassen.

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This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It begins by analyzing the re-presentation of the classical prophets and their revelatory experience in an attempt to identify how prophecy and revelation was reconceptualized in the Dead Sea Scrolls in dialogue and in contrast with received biblical models. This work then examines the direct evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls regarding ongoing prophetic activity at Qumran and in related segments of Second Temple Judaism. This study argues that the Dead Sea Scrolls bear witness to a transformed prophetic tradition active at Qumran and in Second Temple Judaism. Topics treated include the relationship of prophecy to scriptural interpretation, wisdom, and law, and eschatological prophecy.