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Reading the present in the Qumran library : the perception of the contemporary by means of scriptural interpretations / edited by Kristin De Troyer and Armin Lange ; with the assistance of Katie M. Goetz and Susan Bond.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BM487 .R35 2005b
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Symposium series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 30.
- Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dead Sea scrolls.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible. Old Testament--Influence.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Contemporary, The.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 236 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Summary:
- Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
- Contents:
- Is it true? Hermeneutical reading of the present / Christine Helmer
- Pt. 1: Dead Sea Scrolls
- Pesharim: a mirror of self-understanding / Jutta Jokiranta
- Contemporizing Halakhic exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman
- Jeremiah and the "Diaspora Letters" in ancient Judaism: epistolary communication with the Golah as medium for dealing with the present / Lutz Doering
- Justifying deviance: the place of scripture in converting to Qumran self-understanding / George J. Brooke
- Pt. 2: Ancient Judaism
- "Reading the present" in the animal apocalypse (1Enoch 85-90) / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
- Why has Daniel's prophecy not been fulfilled? The question of political peace and independence in the additions to Daniel / Ulrike Mittmann-Richert
- Pt. 3: The textual tradition of the Hebrew and Greek Bible
- Reading Deuteronomy in the Second Temple period / Sidnie White Crawford
- Building the altar and reading the law: the journeys of Joshua 8:30-35 / Kristin De Troyer
- Pt. 4: Authoritative literature in ancient Israel and Judah
- Interpreting the Exile: the experience of the destruction of the Temple and devastation of the land as reflected within the nonpentateuchal Biblical Abraham tradition / Beate Ego
- Reading the decline of prophecy / Armin Lange
- Conclusions
- Linking the past, the present, and the future in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Kristin De Troyer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004137610
- OCLC:
- 60697074
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004137615
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