The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for the first time a large sample of such compositions in their original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible texts do not use the particular style and nomenclature specific to the literature produced by the Qumran community. Many of these texts are unknown from any other sources, and have been published only during the last two decades. They therefore became the object of intense scholarly study. However, most the attention has been directed to the longer specimens, such as the Hebrew Book of Jubilees and the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon. The present volume addresses the less known and poorly studied pieces, a group of eleven small Hebrew texts that rework the Hebrew Bible. It provides fresh editions, translations and detailed commentaries for each one. The volume thus places these texts within the larger context of the Qumran library, aiming at completing the data about the rewritten Bible.

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Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are texts which rewrite the Hebrew Bible. Most of the scholarly attention has been focused on the larger specimens of this genre, such as Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon. This volume assembles eleven smaller texts of this type and analyzes them in order to see how they fit into the wider picture of the scrolls.
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"Umfangreiche Indices zu den behandelten Quellen, Namen und Schlagworten beschließen einen Band, der zu den diskutierten Fragmenten neue Erkenntnisse über Beschaffenheit, Anordnung und Inhalt beiträgt und über die DJD-Editionen hinaus unbedingt zu konsultieren ist."
Stefan Beyerle in: BN/NF 182 (2019), 127-128

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Product details

ISBN
9783110302981
Published
2014-10-27
Publisher
De Gruyter; De Gruyter
Weight
705 gr
Height
230 mm
Width
155 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
395

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Biographical note

Devorah Dimant and Liora Goldman, University of Haifa, Israel; Ariel Feldman, Texas Christian University, TX, USA.