Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch Issues

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xiv, 418 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Paul Heger, PhD (Toronto, 1996), is the author of Development of the Incense Cult in Israel (1997), Three Biblical Altar Laws (1999), and Pluralistic Halakhah (2003) (de Gruyter), Cult as the Catalyst for Division (2007, Brill), and numerous journal articles.

Readership

Scholars and students of the Dead Sea Scrolls, particularly of Qumran’s interpretive system vs. rabbinic methods; interpretation of apocryphal literature in accordance with assumed conceptions of ancient readers and audiences.

1.Introduction
2.Rabbinic And Qumran Interpretation Systems
3.The Attribution Of Modern Concepts To Authors And Readers Of Ancient Texts
4.Enoch: Complementary or Alternative to Mosaic Torah?
5.Jubilees and the Mosaic Torah
6.Another Look at Dualism in Qumran Writings
7.Against a Theory of Dual Determinism in 1QS and 1QHa
8.Epilogue

€112.00$156.00

Series:

Volume:

103

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004231047

Status:

Forthcoming Title

The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions

Edited by George J. Brooke, University of Manchester, Daniel K. Falk, University of Oregon, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Molly M. Zahn, University of Kansas

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the forms, transmission, canonization, and interpretation of authoritative scriptures.

€188.00$261.00

Series:

Volume:

101

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004202863

Status:

Forthcoming Title

Das hebräische Partizip in den Texten aus der judäischen Wüste

Gregor Geiger

This investigation studies the participle in the Hebrew manuscripts from the Judaean Desert, its formation, its usage, and its meaning, compared with those in other Hebrew traditions and dialects, especially the language of the Hebrew Bible. Diese Studie untersucht das Partizip in den ...

€199.00$273.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004208063

Status:

The Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarly Perspective: A History of Research

Edited by Devorah Dimant

This book contains an exhaustive survey of past and present Qumran research, outlining its particular development in various circumstances and national contexts. For the first time, perspectives and information not recorded in any other publication are highlighted.

€143.00$196.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004214507

Status:

Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature

Edited by Jeremy Penner, Ken M. Penner, and Cecilia Wassen

A timely collection of contributions by major scholars in the field of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

€177.00$242.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004168121

Status:

Civic Ideology, Organization, and Law in the Rule Scrolls

Yonder Moynihan Gillihan

Using insights from modern sociology, this book argues that the organization, law, and literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls sect expressed an "alternative civic ideology" by which members claimed citizenship in a superior commonwealth that would soon replace the existing Judean state.

€110.00$151.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004194304

Status:

The Mermaid and the Partridge

Edited by George J. Brooke and Jesper Høgenhaven

This volume, which contains the papers from a conference in Copenhagen in June 2009 on the texts from DJD V, represents the ongoing work on the re-edition of these texts, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968).

€108.00$153.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004193901

Status:

Rethinking Rewritten Scripture

Molly M. Zahn

This study advances our understanding of the nature and purpose of the rewriting of Scripture in Second Temple Judaism through a comparative analysis of the compositional methods and interpretive goals of the five 4QReworked Pentateuch manuscripts (4Q158, 364–367).

€180.00$255.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004187863

Status:

Aramaica Qumranica

€202.00$287.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004185937

Status:

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture

edited by Adolfo D. Roitman, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Shani Tzoref

This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in July 2008 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

€105.00$146.00

Series:

Volume:

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004185845

Status:

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Edited by Sarianna Metso, Hindy Najman and Eileen Schuller

This volume considers the transmission of interpretive traditions and the details of scribal practices. The essays explore the variety of ways that texts are interpreted at Qumran and also re-evaluates sectarian categorizations of texts along with distinctive scribal practices.