Rewriting and interpreting the Hebrew Bible : the biblical patriarchs in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls / edited by Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dimant, Devorah.

Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957-

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 439.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; Bd. 439

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patriarchs (Bible).

Dead Sea scrolls.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpretation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analyzes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob's career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Table of Contents

The Bible Interpreting Itself / Bar-Asher, Moshe

Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs / Tov, Emanuel

Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran? / Bernstein, Moshe J.

The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story / Segal, Michael

The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts / Dimant, Devorah

The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective / Kratz, Reinhard G.

Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran / Vielhauer, Roman

Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran / Brooke, George J.

With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees / Livneh, Atar

Levi, the Levites, and the Law / Samuel, Harald

The Burial of the Fathers in the Visions of Amram from Qumran / Goldman, Liora

The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Schiffman, Lawrence H.

Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Shemesh, Aharon

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110290554

3110290553

OCLC:

851970518