The Mermaid and the Partridge
Essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four
Biographical note
George J. Brooke, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester, has written and published extensively on numerous topics related to the scrolls found at Qumran, especially on the scriptural interpretation in them.
Jesper Høgenahven, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, has published extensively on prophetic texts in the Old Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls in particular.
Jesper Høgenahven, Professor at the University of Copenhagen, has published extensively on prophetic texts in the Old Testament and Dead Sea Scrolls in particular.
Readership
All interested in Dead Sea Scrolls, history of Judaism in Antiquity, ancient biblical interpretation
Table of contents
Contributors: George J. Brooke, Jesper Høgenhaven, Molly Zahn, Moshe J. Bernstein, Alex P. Jassen, Roman Vielhauer, Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch, Søren Holst, Mike Laughlin, Shani Tzoref, Mika Pajunen, Mladen Popovic, Gregory L. Doudna, Mogens Müller
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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the forms, transmission, canonization, and interpretation of authoritative scriptures.
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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 ...
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The study disputes allegations of dualism and determinism in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the substitution of Enoch’s prophecies for the Mosaic Torah, which are incompatible with the biblical doctrines that dominated Jewish society in the late Second Temple period.
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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.
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A timely collection of contributions by major scholars in the field of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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