Charlotte Hempel

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Hebrew Bible
Second Temple Judaism
Dead Sea Scrolls

Current and recent doctoral theses supervised include:

1. A Jungian Approach to the Dead Sea Scrolls
2. Revitalization in Judea: An Anthropological Study of the Damascus Document
3. A Contextualized approach to the Hebrew Dead Sea Scrolls Containing Exodus
4. The Qumran Wisdom Texts and the Gospel of John (co-supervised with Karen Wenell and Gareth Sears, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology)
5. The Significance of Selah in the Psalter
6. Encountering Evil: Apotropaic Magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls
7. Galilean Religious Identity in the 1st century BCE (co-supervised with Karen Wenell and Gareth Sears, Classics and Ancient History)
8. Is Wisdom Dead? Reconceptualising Wisdom in Light of the Maskil Figure at Qumran (co-supervised with Hugh Houghton)
9. Before the Bible: Ezekiel Traditions from the Corpus of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Light of 4QPseudo-Ezekiel
10. Dualisms at Qumran and Beyond (co-supervised with Andrew Perrin, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, Canada)
11. Liturgical and Ritualised Warfare in the War Scroll and Related War Texts
12. The Function of Metaphor in the Depictions of Disability in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls (co-supervised with Candida Moss and Jeanette Littlemore)
13. Expressing Power in the Song of Songs: Nature, Gender and Royalty

1996 …2023

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  • 2023

    Curated Communities: Refracted Realities at Qumran and on Social Media

    Hempel, C., 9 Feb 2023, The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture. Williams, T., Keith, C. & Stuckenbruck, L. (eds.). Leiden; Boston: Brill, p. 335-357 23 p. (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah; vol. 144).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Yahwistic Diversity in the Land of Israel: The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Hempel, C., 2023, Social Groups behind Biblical Traditions: Identity Perspectives from Egypt, Transjordan, Mesopotamia, and Israel in the Second Temple Period. Hensel, B. (ed.). Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • 2022

    Community Formation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Beyond the Watershed Paradigm

    Hempel, C., 22 Aug 2022, Emerging Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Continuity, Separation, and Conflict. Collins, J. J. & Geyser-Fouche, A. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 119–144 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah; vol. 141).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • 2021

    A Tale of Two Scribes: Encounters with an Avant-Garde Manuscript of the Community Rules (4Q259)

    Hempel, C., 15 Oct 2021, Hokhmat Sopher: Mélanges offerts au Professeur Émile Puech en l’honneur de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire. Rey, J-S. & Staszak, M. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, p. 115-128 14 p. (Etudes Bibliques N.S.; vol. 88).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Rules of Ancient Communities

    Hempel, C., 5 Dec 2021, (Submitted) The New Oxford Bible Commentary. Dell, K. & Lincicum, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 22 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Self-fashioning in the Dead Sea Scrolls: thickening the description of what rule texts do

    Hempel, C., 1 Aug 2021, Social History of the Jews in Antiquity: Studies in Dialogue with Albert Baumgarten. Bar-Asher Siegal, M. & Ben-Dov, J. (eds.). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, p. 49-66 18 p. (Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum; vol. 185).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls: Challenging the Particularist Paradigm

    Hempel, C., 27 May 2021, Torah, Temple and Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity. Witte, M., Schröter, J. & Lepper, V. M. (eds.). Mohr Siebeck, p. 91-104 24 p. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; vol. 184).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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  • 2020

    4QMMT in the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls and beyond

    Hempel, C., 1 Sept 2020, Interpreting and Living God’s Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Maʿaśe ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT). Kratz, R. G. (ed.). Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, p. 117-136 20 p. (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia; vol. 37).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • Bildung und Wissenswirtschaft zur Zeit des Zweiten Tempels

    Translated title of the contribution: Education and Knowledge Economy in the Second Temple PeriodHempel, C., 2020, Was ist Bildung in der Vormoderne?. Gemeinhardt, P. (ed.). Tuebingen: Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, p. 229 244 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • The Apotropaic Function of the Final Hymn in the Community Rules

    Hempel, C., 26 Oct 2020, Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets: On Prayer and Praying in Second Temple Judaism. Feldman, A. & Sandoval, T. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 131-154 24 p. (BZAW).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  • 2017

    Reflections on Literacy, Textuality, and Community in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls

    Hempel, C., 17 May 2017, Is There a Text in this Cave? : Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke. Feldman, A., Cioata, M. & Hempel, C. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 69-82 12 p. (Studies on the Texts from the Desert of Judah; vol. 119).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

    4 Citations (Scopus)
  • The theatre of the written word: reading the community rule with Steven Fraade

    Hempel, C., 30 Sept 2017, The Faces of Torah: Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade. Hayes, C., Novick, M. & Bar-Asher Siegal, M. (eds.). Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 119-130 (Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Judaism).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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  • 2016

    Cutting the chord with the Familiar: what makes 4Q265 miscellaneous rules tick?

    Hempel, C., 15 Nov 2016, Sibyls, Scriptures, and Scrolls: John Collins at Seventy. Baden, J., Najman, H. & Tigchelaar, E. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 509-516 8 p. (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism; no. 175).

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  • The Profile and Character of Qumran Cave 4: The Community Rule Manuscripts as a Test Case

    Hempel, C., 24 Nov 2016, The Caves of Qumran: Proceedings of the International Conference, Lugano 2014. Fidanzio, M. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 7 p. (STDJ; vol. 118).

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