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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooke, George J.

Contributor:

LaCoste, Nathalie.

Series:

Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39.

Early Judaism and its literature ; number 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead Sea scrolls.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dead Sea Scrolls, which have long captured the public imagination, are now all available in principal editions and accessible translations. This book addresses the next stage in their analysis by raising questions about how they should be read and studied. The essays collected here illustrate two approaches. First, some essays argue that traditional methods of studying ancient texts need to be refined and broadened in the light of the Scrolls. The volume thus contains studies on text criticism, literary traditions, lexicography, historiography, and theology. Second, the book also argues that innovative methods of study, applied fruitfully in other areas, now also need to be applied to the Scrolls, such as studies that consider the relevance for the Scrolls of deviance theory, cultural memory, hypertextualiry, intertextuality, genre theory, spatial analysis, and psychology. Many of the examples in these studies relate to how authoritative scripture was handled and appropriated by the groups that gathered the Scrolls together in the caves at and near Qumran, so some of the same texts are analyzed from several different perspectives. Book jacket.

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

Pešer and midraš 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9781589839038

158983903X

9781589839021

1589839021

OCLC:

927515908

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32643 hdl