Sidnie White Crawford

Biographic Data

ID1424144
NAMESidnie White Crawford
GIVEN NAMESSidnie White
FAMILY NAMECrawford
SIGNATURECRAWFORD S W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
ORCID0000-0002-0066-0020
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS21
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Missing Pieces

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2026

  • The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible

    Sidnie White Crawford, TOMMY WASSERMANEDITORBOOKOxford Handbook of Textual…2026

    This handbook provides an overview of the disciplines of textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament as practiced in the twenty-first century. The first part deals with overarching issues like the formation of the Jewish and Christian canons; philosophical presuppositions in the methods and goals of textual criticism; the complex relationship between literary criticism and textual criticism; and how the related fields of book hist…

  • Where is Moses? The Temple Scroll's Claim to Authority

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2022

    Although the Temple Scroll is set on Mount Sinai, the place where Moses received God's revelation of the Torah, remarkably enough Moses is silent throughout the Temple Scroll. Instead, the entire revelation of the Torah, including the book of Deuteronomy, comes directly from God speaking in the first person to a silent Moses. The question is why did the composer/redactor of the Temple Scroll choose this pseudepigraphical strategy for his composit…

  • Khirbet Qumrân and Aïn Feshkha IVa

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEDead Sea Discoveries2021

    Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Marcello Fidanzio (eds.), Khirbet Qumrân and Aïn Feshkha IVa: Qumrân Cave 11Q; Archaeology and New Scroll Fragments. NTOA Series Archaeologica 8a. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. Hardback. ISBN 9783525564691.This recent publication on the archaeology of Qumran Cave 11 presents a comprehensive overview of the archaeological data from Cave 11Q from its discovery and first excavation in 1956 until its most recent s…

  • The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2021

  • The Jewish and Samaritan Pentateuchs

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEHebrew Bible and Ancient Israel2020

    Prior to the discovery of the Judean Desert manuscripts, the line dividing the disciplines of textual criticism and literary (source) criticism was firmly drawn. Since the Judean Desert discoveries that line has become much more porous as editorial work by scribes in the ongoing transmission of the classical literature of ancient Israel became apparent. This article uses three examples to demonstrate that scribal editorial work in extant Judean D…

  • Judith

    Lawrence M Wills, White Crawford Sidnie et al.EDITORBOOKJudith2019

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the concept of a library

    Cecilia Wassen, Sidnie White CrawfordBOOKThe Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran…2016

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library

    Sidnie White Crawford, Cecilia WassenEDITORBOOKThe Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran…2015

    The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library presents twelve articles by renowned experts in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran studies. These articles explore from various angles the question of whether or not the collection of manuscripts found in the eleven caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran can be characterized as a “library,” and, if so, what the relation of that library is to the ruins of Qumran and the group of Jews that i…

  • A Symposium on the Legacy of Frank Moore Cross—Introduction

    Walter E Aufrecht, Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2014

    The papers following these remarks were presented in November 2013 at a symposium jointly sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Schools of Oriental Research. Frank Cross was a president of both of these organizations, and so it seemed desirable to conduct a retrospective of his scholarly work under their aegis. Cross’s life and career was superbly highlighted in this journal by Peter Machinist (2013), and they need no f…

  • Frank Moore Cross's Contribution to the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2014

    This paper examines the impact of Frank Moore Cross on the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since Cross was a member of the original editorial team responsible for publishing the Cave 4 materials, his influence on the field was vast. The article is limited to those areas of Scrolls study not covered in other articles; the reader is referred especially to the articles on palaeography and textual criticism for further discussion of Cross's work on th…

  • Enoch and the Mosaic Torah

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEJournal for the Study of Judaism2011

  • Out of the Cave

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2007

  • The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls . Jodi Magness

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2004

  • Not According to Rule

    Sidnie White CrawfordCHAPTEREmanuel2003

    Until very recently, the juxtaposition of the words “women,” “Dead Sea Scrolls” and “Qumran” in the same title would have seemed like an oxymoron. From the beginning of Dead Sea Scrolls research, the people who lived at Qumran and stored the manuscripts in the eleven surrounding caves were identified with the ancient Jewish sect of the Essenes. This identification was based on the descriptions of the Essenes provided by the ancient writers Joseph…

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls, Fifty Years after Their Discovery

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2003

  • The End of the Alpha Text of Esther

    Sidnie White Crawford, Kristin De TroyerARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2002

    The author traces the history of the involvement of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem) in the discovery, identification and publication of the scrolls from the Judaean Desert. The author sketches the "explosive" impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls for studying the text of the Hebrew Bible and looks to future directions of scholarship that should prove equally exciting

  • Masada VI

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2000

  • Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…1996

  • Three Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 and Their Relationship to the Temple Scroll

    Sidnie White CrawfordARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review1994

    Sidnie White Crawford, Three Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 and Their Relationship to the Temple Scroll, The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. 85, No. 1/2, Papers on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Jul. - Oct., 1994), pp. 259-273