The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament George J. Brooke 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 skillfully 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. A wide range of topics and themes is discussed, including Matthew's Beattitudes, the lost song of Miriam, Levi and the Levites, women's authority, and the use of scripture in the parable of the vineyard. George J. Brooke is Rylands Professor of Biblical Studies at the University of Manchester, England. He is on the International editorial board of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A founding editor of the journal Dead Sea Discoveries, he has edited three volumes on the scrolls.