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The Thanksgiving scroll : a scroll from the wilderness of Judaea / text, introduction, commentary and glossary by Jocob Licht.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM488 .T5 1957
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Thanksgiving Psalms. English.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thanksgiving Psalms--Commentaries.
- Thanksgiving Psalms.
- Genre:
- Commentaries.
- Physical Description:
- 15, 255 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Megilat ha-hodayot
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem : Bialik Institute, 1957.
- Contents:
- The thanksgiving scroll
- Discovery and state of preservation of the scroll
- 1. The Dead Sea scrolls
- 2. The three 'whole' sheets
- 3. The fragments
- 4. Original sequence of parts
- 5. Original length of scroll, and amount actually preserved
- Orthography and language
- 6. Orthography
- 7. Phonetic spelling
- 8. Peculiar forms of verbs and nouns
- 9. The vowel O instead of A
- 10. Aramaisms
- 11. Biblicisms
- Style and poetical construction
- 12. Richness of style
- 13. Use of biblical phrases
- 14. Brevity and fullness of style
- 15. Stichoi and parallelism
- 16. The usual initial formula
- 17. Other formulae
- 18. Poetical construction
- 19. Changes in style due to avoidance of divine names
- Redaction
- 20. The redaction of the scroll
- Content
- 21. Thanksgiving
- 22. Influence of biblical literary tradition
- 23. Individualism
- 24. Themes dealt with in the scroll, combination of themes
- 25. Speculative background o the scroll's poetry
- 26. Differences in doctrine between this scroll and other sectarian writings
- The author of the thanksgiving psalms
- 27. Unity of composition and personality of author
- 28. The author's claim to leadership
- 29. The view that these psalms were written by the 'teacher of righteousness'
- 30. Refutation of this view
- Creator and creation
- 31. Predestination
- 32. Dualism
- 33. Cosmic dualism
- 34. Reward and punishment
- 35. The mysteries of creation
- 36. Divine justice
- 37. Purpose of creation
- 38. Eschatology
- 39. The destruction of evil and the renewal of creation
- Man and his destiny
- 40. Human baseness
- 41. Flesh
- 42. Sin
- 43. Grace
- 44. Election
- 45. Spirit
- 46. Gifts of the spirit
- 47. Piety and reliance on God
- 48. Acceptance of suffering
- 49. Redemption
- 50. Purification
- 51. Knowledge
- 52. Content of knowledge
- 53. Understanding
- 54. Praise
- 55. Purpose of election
- The 'community'
- 56. The author's membership in the community
- 57. Nature of community
- 58. Names of community
- 59. Communal knowledge
- 60. Communal praise, the companionship with angels
- 61. Angelology
- 62. Eschatological expectations of the community
- 63. Messiah.
- OCLC:
- 3277554
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