The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism -- The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition -- Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding -- Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture -- Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls -- Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran -- Pešer and midraš in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography -- Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher -- Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim -- The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim -- Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls -- What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls -- The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.