Is there a text in this cave? : studies in the textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in honour of George J. Brooke / edited by Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioată, and Charlotte Hempel.
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- xl, 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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- Contributions primarily in English, with one in French.
- Summary:
- This volume is offered as a tribute to George Brooke to mark his sixty-fifth birthday. It has been conceived as a coherent contribution to the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls explored from a wide range of perspectives. These include material aspects of the texts, performance, reception, classification, scribal culture, composition, reworking, form and genre, and the issue of the extent to which any of the texts relate (to) social realities in the Second Temple period. Almost every contribution engages with Brooke's own remarkably wide-ranging, incisive, and innovative research on the Scrolls. The twenty-eight contributors are colleagues and students of the honouree and include leading scholars alongside promising new voices from across the field.
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- Introduction / Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioată, and Charlotte Hempel
- Part 1. Is there a text in this cave? Are there sacred texts in Qumran?: the concept of sacred text in light of the Qumran collection / Hanne von Weissenberg and Elisa Uusimäki ; Textual authority and the problem of the biblical canon at Qumran / Philip S. Alexander ; Reflections on literacy, textuality, and community in the Qumran Dead Sea scrolls / Charlotte Hempel ; Scribal bodies as liturgical bodies: the formation of scriptures in early Judaism / Judith H. Newman ; Qumran Cave 4: its archaeology and its manuscript collection / Sidnie White Crawford
- Part 2. Fresh perspectives on fragmentary scrolls. Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel: 4QDn[superscript f]=4Q116[superscript a] / Émile Puech ; 4Q341: a writing exercise remembered / Joan E. Taylor ; 4Q47 (4QJosh[superscript a]): an abbreviated text? / Ariel Feldman ; Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1-3): the imprecatory function of the Edomite genealogy in the Dead Sea scrolls / Kipp Davis
- Part 3. Reading texts within texts. Texts within texts: the text of Jeremiah in the exegetical literature from Qumran / Armin Lange ; Text, intertext, and conceptual identity: the case of Ephraim and the Seekers of Smooth Things / Matthew A. Collins ; Strangers to the "biblical scrolls": Balaam's fourth oracle (Num 24:15-19) and its links to other unique excerpted texts / Helen R. Jacobus ; Deriving negative anthropology through exegetical activity: the Hodayot as case study / Carol A. Newsom
- Part 4. Texts, scribes, and textual growth. The tefillin from the Judean Desert and the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible / Emanuel Tov ; Dittography and copying lines in the Dead Sea scrolls: considering George Brooke's proposal about 1QpHab 7:1-2 / Eibert Tigchelaar ; Pseudepigraphy and a scribal sense of the past in the ancient Mediterranean: a copy of the book of the words of the vision of Amram / Mladen Popović ; The textual growth of the Damascus Document revisited / Philip R. Davies ; Medieval Hebrew tellings of Tobit: "versions" of the book of Tobit or new texts? / Maria Cioată
- Part 5. Old texts, new insights. Some thoughts on the relationship between the book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon / James C. VanderKam ; Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic texts / Devorah Dimant ; Metaphor and eschatology: life beyond death in the Hodayot / John J. Collins ; The book of HGY and ancient reading practices / Jonathan Ben-Dov ; Ritualization and the power of listing in 4QBerakhot[superscript a] (4Q286) / Jutta Jokiranta ; Jewish wisdom in the Hellenistic period: towards the study of a semantic constellation / Hindy Najman ; In the garden of good and evil: reimagining a tradition (Sir 17:1-14, 4Q303, 4QInstruction, 1QS 4:25-26, and 1QSa 1:10-11) / Jean-Sébastien Rey ; How should we feel about the Teacher of Righteousness? / Angela Kim Harkins ; The Teacher of Righteousness and his enemies / Reinhard G. Kratz.
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- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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- Online version: Is there a text in this cave?
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- 975031388
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