Is there a text in this cave?: studies in the textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke
Contents -- Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources -- Bibliography of the Writings of George J. Brooke -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Is There a Text in This Cave? -- Are There Sacred Texts in Qumran? The Concept of Sacred Text in Light of the Qumran Collection -- Textua...
| Summary: | Contents -- Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources -- Bibliography of the Writings of George J. Brooke -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Is There a Text in This Cave? -- Are There Sacred Texts in Qumran? The Concept of Sacred Text in Light of the Qumran Collection -- Textual Authority and the Problem of the Biblical Canon at Qumran -- Reflections on Literacy, Textuality, and Community in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls -- Scribal Bodies as Liturgical Bodies: The Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism -- Qumran Cave 4: Its Archaeology and its Manuscript Collection -- Part 2 Fresh Perspectives on Fragmentary Scrolls -- Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel : 4QDnf = 4Q116a -- 4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered -- 4Q47 (4QJosha): An Abbreviated Text? -- Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1-3): The Imprecatory Function of the Edomite Genealogy in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Part 3 Reading Texts within Texts -- Texts within Texts: The Text of Jeremiah in the Exegetical Literature from Qumran -- Text, Intertext, and Conceptual Identity: The Case of Ephraim and the Seekers of Smooth Things -- Strangers to the "Biblical Scrolls": Balaam's Fourth Oracle (Num 24:15-19) and its Links to Other Unique Excerpted Texts -- Deriving Negative Anthropology through Exegetical Activity: The Hodayot as Case Study -- Part 4 Texts, Scribes, and Textual Growth -- The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible -- Dittography and Copying Lines in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considering George Brooke's Proposal about 1QpHab 7:1-2 -- Pseudepigraphy and a Scribal Sense of the Past in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Copy of the Book of the Words of the Vision of Amram -- The Textual Growth of the Damascus Document Revisited -- Medieval Hebrew Tellings of Tobit: "Versions" of the Book of Tobit or New Texts? -- Part 5 Old Texts, New Insights Some Thoughts on the Relationship between the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon -- Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic Texts -- Metaphor and Eschatology: Life beyond Death in the Hodayot -- The Book of HGY and Ancient Reading Practices -- Ritualization and the Power of Listing in 4QBerakhota (4Q286) -- Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Period: Towards the Study of a Semantic Constellation -- In the Garden of Good and Evil: Reimagining a Tradition (Sir 17:1-14, 4Q303, 4QInstruction,1QS 4:25-26, and 1QSa 1:10-11) -- How Should We Feel about the Teacher of Righteousness? -- The Teacher of Righteousness and His Enemies -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Subjects |
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| ISBN: | 9004344535 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004344532 |