Prof. Jonathan Ben-Dov, studies the Qumran scrolls and apocalyptic literature in their ancient contexts.
He was the youngest collaborator in the official publication of the scrolls in the DJD series,
co-authoring an edition of the calendrical scrolls with the late Prof. Shemaryahu Talmon.
He is currently working with a team of young scholars on editions of the scrolls written in cryptic A script,
and of the wisdom composition Musar Lemevin (4QInstruction).
Ben-Dov is co-director of the digitization project Scripta Qumranica Electronica,
and associate editor of the series Studies in the Texts from the Desert of Judah (Brill publishers).

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