History, ideology and Bible interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls : collected studies / Devorah Dimant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dimant, Devorah, author.

Series:

Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; Volume 90.

Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 0940-4155 ; Volume 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qumran community.Qumran community.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (610 pages) : tables.

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, [Germany] : Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

Summary:

In this volume Devorah Dimant assembles twenty-seven thoroughly updated and partly rewritten articles discussing various aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls that she published over the past three decades. An introductory essay written especially for this volume surveys the present state of research on the Scrolls. Dealing with major themes developed in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the author reflects the rapid expansion and change of perspective that has taken place in research on the collection in recent years following its full publication. Among the topics treated are the nature and contents of the Scrolls collection as a whole, the specific literature of the community that owned this collection, the Aramaic texts and the apocryphal and pseudepigraphic works found therein. Each of these chapters contains an inventory list of the texts under discussion. In the article on the entire Scrolls collection she provides an updated inventory and analysis of all the Dead Sea Scrolls. Besides these general surveys, the volume includes discussions of particular themes such as the history of the community related to the Scrolls, its self-image and particular interpretation of biblical prophecies, and its notion of time. In addition, various previously unknown apocryphal works found among the Scrolls are analyzed, such as Pseudo-Ezekiel (4Q385-4Q386,4Q388), Apocryphon of Jeremiah C (4Q385a-4Q390), Apocryphon of Joshua (4Q522), Pesher on the Periods (4Q180, with a fresh edition), and a new edition and interpretation of the Words of Benjamin (4Q548). Reihe Forschungen zum Alten Testament - Band 90

Contents:

Introductory essay : the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls : past and present

The Qumran library

The Qumran manuscripts : contents and significance

The vocabulary of the Qumran sectarian texts

Sectarian and nonsectarian texts from Qumran : The pertinence and use of a taxonomy

Between sectarian and nonsectarian : the case of the Apocryphon of Joshua

Between Qumran sectarian and Qumran nonsectarian texts : the case of Belial and Mastema

Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha at Qumran

The composite character of the Qumran sectarian literature as an indication of its date and provenance

The Qumran Aramaic texts and the Qumran community

Themes and genres in the Aramaic texts from Qumran

The history of the Qumran community

The history of the Qumran community in light of new developments in the study of the scrolls

Themes in the Qumran literature

Resurrection, restoration, and time-curtailing at Qumran, and in early Judaism and Christianity

4QFlorilegium and the idea of the community as a temple

The volunteers in the Rule of the community : a biblical notion in sectarian garb

Time, Torah and prophecy at Qumran

Exegesis and time in the Pesharim from Qumran

Texts from Qumran. The Apocryphon of Joshua : 4Q522 9 ii : a reappraisal

Two "Scientific" fictions : the so-called book of Noah and the alleged quotation from Jubilees in the Damascus document XVI, 3-4

What is the "Book of the Divisions of the Times"?

The Pesher on the Periods (4Q180) and 4Q181

On righteous and sinners : 4Q181 reconsidered

Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C in perspective

Not the Testament of Judah but the Words of Benjamin : the character of 4Q538

Not exile in the desert but exile in spirit : the Pesher of Isa 40:3 in the Rule of the community and the history of the Scrolls community

Men as angels : the self-image of the Qumran community

David's youth in the Qumran context (11QPs[superscript]a XXVIII, 3-12)

Abraham the astrologer at Qumran? : observations on Pseudo-jubilees (4Q225 2 i 3-8)

Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783161510212

9783161528514