Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method

Name: Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls: Essays in Method
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ISBN: 9781589839038

ISBN-10: 158983903X

ISBN-13: 9781589839038

Edition: 2013

Authors: George J Brooke

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Abbreviations


Previous Publications


Preface


Introduction



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



Peï¿½er 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


Bibliography


Index of Ancient Sources


Index of Modern Authors