History, Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Collected Studies (2014 Dimant), book

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History, Ideology and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Collected Studies (2014) is a book by Devorah Dimant.

Abstract

"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. The volume also 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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2014 (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 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.

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