This volume comprises forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students in honour of Florentino Garcia Martinez. The articles are primarily in the field of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but also cover many other fields of Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint up to the pseudepigrapha and early rabbinic writings.

Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994) University of Groningen, is Professor of Religions of Western Antiquity at Florida State University. He has published extensively on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and is editor of Dead Sea Discoveries and the Journal for the Study of Judaism.
Émile Puech, Ph.D. (1992) in History and Religious Anthropology, Sorbonne University, Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, Institut Catholique Paris, is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Paris) and Professor at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française, Jerusalem. He has published many Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of Cave 4 (Starcky's Lot), and is Director of Revue de Qumrân (Gabalda, Paris).
Anthony Hilhorst, Ph.D. (1976) Catholic University of Nijmegen, emeritus Reader of New Testament Studies at the University of Groningen and former secretary of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, has published on the reception of Scripture and on early Christian texts, including Apocalypse of Paul (1997).