The Dynamics of Language and Exegesis at Qumran
edited by Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz
The discovery of the Qumran scrolls sixty years ago revolutionized our understanding of the development and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. It became clear that both are mutually involved processes which started during the final stages of the Hebrew Bible and went on until its final canonization around 100 CA. Dated as they are between 300 BCE – 50 CA, the Qumran documents are placed precisely at the crucial stages of these developments. The recent publication of the entire collection of the scrolls illuminates these stages and opens new vistas on the early exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and its dynamics. In this volume, the authors deal with these issues in the light of the new material. Several articles trace the development from inner biblical interpretation to its follow-up in the scrolls and other ancient Jewish writings. Other contributions examine how various biblical narratives and figures are interpreted by the scrolls. The exegetical technique of the Pesharim, the particular interpretation of the biblical prophets, nurtured by the owners of the Qumran scrolls, is the subject of other discussions, while the relationship of the Book of Tobit and Qumran is the object of two of the studies in this volume.
I. Language and Methods Moshe Bar Asher: Qumran Hebrew Between Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew: A Morphological Study - George Brooke: New Perspectives on the Bible and Its Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls - Annette Steudel: Dating Exegetical Texts from Qumran II. Biblical and Related Writings Ariel Feldman: The Story of the Flood in 4Q422 - Reinhard G. Kratz: Friend of God, Brother of Sarah, and Father of Isaac: Abraham in the Hebrew Bible and in Qumran - Jan Joosten: The Interpretation of Deuteronomy 29:17-20 in the Hellenistic Period: Septuagint, Qumran and Parabiblical Literature - Devorah Dimant: The Book of Tobit and the Qumran Halakhah - Ingo Kottsieper: Look
son, what Nadab did to Ahikarosa: The Aramaic Ahiqar Tradition and its Relationship to the Book of Tobit III. Sectarian Writings Anja Klein: From the 'Right Spirit' to the 'Spirit of Truth': Observations on Ps 51 and 1QS - Liora Goldman: The Exegesis and Structure of Pesharim in the Damascus Document - Peter Porzig: The Ark of the Covenant in the Non-Biblical Texts from Qumran
- Edited by Devorah Dimant
- Edited by Reinhard G Kratz
Other Titles in this Series
The Call of Moses and the Exodus Story
A Redactional-Critical Study in Exodus 3-4 and 5-13
Volume 60
Narrative Analogy in the David Story
Parallels between Genesis 25-50 and 1 Samuel 16-1 Kings 2
Volume 154
God’s Enduring Love in the Book of Hosea
A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Hosea 11:1-11
Volume 14
Schriftgelehrte Fortschreibungs- und Auslegungsprozesse
Textarbeit im Pentateuch, in Qumran, Agypten und Mesopotamien
Volume 108
Achronology in the Priestly Tabernacle Narratives of the Pentateuch
The Scribal Tendency Towards Thematic Arrangement
Of Kings and Reigns
A Study of Translation Technique in the Gamma/Gamma Section of 3 Reigns (1 Kings)
Volume 30
Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah
How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets
Volume 121
Monotheism and Institutions in the Book of Chronicles
Temple, Priesthood, and Kingship in Post-Exilic Perspective. Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on Early Jewish Monotheism. Vol. I
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The Feasts of the Calendar in the Book of Numbers
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Volume 132
God, His Servant, and the Nations in Isaiah 42:1-9
Biblical Theological Reflections after Brevard S. Childs and Hans Hubner
Volume 73
Silent or Salient Gender?
The Interpretation of Gendered God-Language in the Hebrew Bible, Exemplified in Isaiah 42, 46, and 49
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