Sarianna Metso

Biography:

Professor Metso specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. She is the author of The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Brill, 1997), The Serekh Texts (T&T Clark, 2007), and The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation (SBL Press, 2019). As a member of the official publication team of the Dead Sea Scrolls, she has co-edited two fragmentary manuscripts for the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series (DJD XVI; Oxford: Clarendon, 2000). Her other publications include The Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a co-edited thematic issue for the journal Dead Sea Discoveries (Brill, 2009), and two co-edited conference volumes, Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Texts from Cave 1 Sixty Years after Their Discovery (Brill, 2010) and The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts (Brill, 2010). Additionally, she has written numerous articles on various aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible, particularly on issues of ancient Jewish legislation, community identity development, and methodology of historical reconstruction. She is currently preparing a new Hebrew critical edition of the Book of Leviticus.

Read about Professor Metso’s research: WritingsofJewishAntiquity.pdf