Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-310) and index.

1. The Qumran scrolls and the study of the New Testament -- 2. Jesus, the Dead Sea scrolls and scrolls scholarship -- 3. The 'canon within the canon' at Qumran and in the New Testament -- 4. Biblical interpretation in the Qumran scrolls and the New Testament -- 5. Shared intertextual interpretations in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament -- 6. The Temple scroll and the New Testament -- 7. Levi and the Levites in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament -- 8. The Apocryphon of Levi[superscript b]? and the messianic servant high priest -- 9. Luke-Acts and the Qumran scrolls : the case of MMT -- 10. The Commentary on Genesis A and the New Testament -- 11. From Qumran to Corinth : embroidered allusions to women's authority -- 12. The wisdom of Matthew's beatitudes -- 13. 4Q500 1 and the use of scripture in the parable of the vineyard -- 14. Qumran : the cradle of the Christ? -- 15. Songs of revolution : the song of Miriam and its counterparts -- 16. 4Q252 and the 153 fish of John 21.11.

"George J. Brooke illuminates the first-century world shared by the Qumran community and the writers of the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided Old Testament scholars with an enormous wealth of data for textual criticism as well as theology. But, as Brooke demonstrates, New Testament scholars can use the Scrolls to learn more about the linguistic, historical, religious, and social contexts of Palestine in the first century."--BOOK JACKET.