This is a wide-ranging book, dealing with many topics of current interest in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish and Christian Worship and their links, the religious Calendar, ancient Chronology, the Old Testament Psalter and New Testament eschatology.

Roger T. Beckwith is a priest of the Church of England holding an Oxford BD and Lambeth DD. Formerly Warden of Latimer House, Oxford, he currently assists at the City Church in Oxford. His publications include The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church (SPCK/Eerdmans) and Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian (Brill). He hopes to write further on the canon of Scripture and on sacramental theology.