Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : essays in method

Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : essays in method / George J. Brooke ; with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooke, George J. (Author)
Other Authors: LaCoste, Nathalie (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]
Series:Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39.
Subjects:
Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism
  • The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition
  • Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding
  • Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture
  • Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls
  • Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran
  • Pešer and midraš in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography
  • Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher
  • Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim
  • The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim
  • Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls
  • What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls
  • The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.

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