Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998 Stone/Chazon), edited volume

Biblical Perspectives: Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998) is a volume edited by Michael E. Stone and Esther G. Chazon.

Abstract

Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 12-14 May 1996.

"This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic literature. Interpretive interests, techniques and traditions are examined in many types of ancient works: rewritten bibles, pseudepigrapha, legal codes, prayers, sapiential texts, admonitions and historical treatises. The authors highlight the contribution of the new finds from the Judean Desert to such major issues as attitudes to the Bible and the Law in antiquity, continuity and innovation vis a vis the biblical world, common and unique dimensions of interpretation among different groups in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods in particular, the Qumran sectarians and their opponents, New Testament authors and rabbinic Sages."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1998 (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 28).

Table of contents

• The status of the Torah in the pre-Sinaitic period: St. Paul's epistle to the Romans / Gary A. Anderson
• Scripture and law in 4Q265 / Joseph M. Baumgarten
• Shared intertextual interpretations in the Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament / George G. Brooke
• Looking for legal midrash at Qumran / Steven D. Fraade
• "Narrative exegesis" in the Dead Sea scrolls / Ida Frohlich
• A common heritage: biblical interpretation at Qumran and its implications / Menahem Kister
• For King Joshua or against? The use of the Bible in 4Q448 / Emmanuelle Main
• Patriarchs who worry about their wives: a haggadic tendency in the Genesis apocryphon / George W.E. Nickelsburg
• Post-biblical rib pattern admonitions in 4Q302/303a and 4Q381 69, 76-77 / Bilhah Nitzan
• A note on the use of the Bible in 1 Maccabees / Uriel Rappaport
• The case of the Day of Atonement ritual / Lawrence H. Schiffman
• Ancient Jewish astrology: an attempt to interpret 4Qcryptic (4Q186) / Francis Schmidt
• The use of biblical terms as designations for non-biblical hymnic and prayer compositions / Eileen M. Schuller
• On something biblical about 2 Maccabees / Daniel R. Schwartz
• The rewritten Book of Joshua as found at Qumran and Masada / Emanuel Tov