The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts (2010 Metso, Najman, Schuller), edited volume

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts (2010) is a volume edited by Sarianna Metso, Hindy Najman and Eileen Schuller.

Abstract

"How were Jewish texts produced and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of both scriptural and interpretive traditions, which are—as the Scrolls show so decisively—intimately intertwined? How were texts assembled from a variety of earlier sources, both oral and written? Why were they often attributed to pseudonymous authors from the remote past such as Moses and David? How did the composers of these texts understand the enterprise in which they were engaged? This volume furthers current debates about Qumran Scribal Practice and the transmission of traditions in Jewish Antiquity. It is published with the conviction that the transmission of traditions and the details of scribal practices—so often treated separately—should be considered in conversation with each other."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2010 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 92).

Contents

• John J. Collins, Tradition and Innovation in the Dead Sea Scrolls

• James C. VanderKam, Moses Trumping Moses: Making the Book of Jubilees

• James L. Kugel, Some Translation and Copying Mistakes from the Original Hebrew of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

• Carol A. Newsom, Why Nabonidus? Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources

• Mladen Popović,The Emergence of Aramaic and Hebrew Scholarly Texts: Transmission and Translation of Alien Wisdom

• Charlotte Hempel, Shared Traditions: Points of Contact Between S and D

• George J. Brooke, Aspects of the Physical and Scribal Features of Some Cave 4 “Continuous” Pesharim

• Emanuel Tov, Some Thoughts About the Diffusion of Biblical Manuscripts in Antiquity

• Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Assessing Emanuel Tov’s “Qumran Scribal Practice”

• Eugene C. Ulrich. The Evolutionary Production and Transmission of the Scriptural Books

• Florentino García Martínez, Beyond the Sectarian Divide: The “Voice of the Teacher” as an Authority-Conferring Strategy in Some Qumran Texts

External links

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