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Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : essays in method / George J. Brooke ; with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781589839021 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.1/55 23
LOC classification:
  • BM487 .B76 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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 -- Pe�ser and midra�s 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes.

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 -- Pe�ser and midra�s 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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