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Subject(s)

• Dead Sea scrolls—History and criticism—Congresses [Browse]

Editor

• Drawnel, Henryk [Browse]

Host institution

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II [Browse]

Series

• Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 133. [More in this series]
• Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; volume 133 [More in this series]

Summary note

"The essays in Sacred Texts and Disparate Interpretations cover an array of core themes from various areas of Qumran studies, including textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple history, philology, paleography, Wisdom and religious poetry. Contributors to this volume generally consider these themes from a historical perspective, trying to find new solutions to old questions and entering in constructive dialogue with the opinions of other scholars. Paleographic investigations, textual criticism as well as literary and philological approaches make this volume a valuable contribution to the variegated and often highly specialized directions of inquiry into the contents and historical background of the Dead Sea Scrolls"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

In the contents, "BHQ" stands for Biblica Hebraica Quinta; and the a̳ in scroll titles, such as 1QIsaa̳, represents a final superscript a.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction: Qumran manuscripts seventy years later / Henryk Drawnel
• Part 1. Hebrew Bible and Qumran manuscripts. Are there mastercopies for genealogically related biblical texts in Qumran?: the question of archetypes and lineages of biblical text witnesses / Adrian Schenker
• Room for further investigation opened by BHQ: three examples (Genesis 33:18, 20 and 35:7) / Adrian Schenker
• The background and origin of the Qumran corpus of Scripture texts / Emanuel Tov
• Part 2. Qumran literature and the Second Temple period. Are the Dead Sea scrolls Pharisaic? / Bartosz Adamczewski
• The changing views of the Hasmoneans in the Dead Sea scrolls: examining seventy years of research / Kenneth Atkinson
• The Wicked Priest, the Righteous Teacher, and the Yaḥad / Vasile Babota
• Women at Qumran?: reconsidering the textual and archaeological data / Claude Cohen-Matlofsky
• The historical context of the Teacher and his movement / John J. Collins
• Part 3. Philology and palaeography. Assembled Israel: performativity in rewritten Bible at Qumran / Jeff S. Anderson
• Late Hebrew forms in 1QIsaa̳ / Donald W. Parry
• Qumran Hebrew from the perspective of verbal valence patterns / Femke Siebesma-Mannens
• Seventy years of palaeographic dating of the Dead Sea scrolls / Eibert Tigchelaar
• Part 4. Wisdom and religious poetry. The human spirit and the holy spirit in the Qumran Hodayot / John Francis Elwolde
• Tôrah and wisdom in the Rules texts from Qumran / John Kampen
• Spiritual battles of the sage: "walking in the way of his [God's] heart": transformation in 1QHa̳ / Christine M. Leroy
• Part 5. Interpreting single texts. The Dead Sea scrolls and how to recognize a "scripture" / Francis Borchardt
• White of complexion and delicate fingered: notes on Sarah's beauty in 1QapGen ar XX, 2-8 / Atar Livneh
• Scribal error or scribal innovation?: a closer look at the law(s) of seduction and rape in the Temple scroll / James M. Tucker.

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ISBN

• 9789004431560 (hardcover)
• 900443156X (hardcover)

LCCN

2020023532

OCLC

1176314758

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