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Author Brooke, George J.

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

Publication Info. Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages)
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Series Early Judaism and its literature ; number 39
Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes.
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 -- Peser and midras 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.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).
Subject Dead Sea scrolls.
Manuscripts, Hebrew.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author LaCoste, Nathalie.
ISBN 9781589839014
9781589839021 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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