Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : essays in method /
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| Author / Creator: | Brooke, George J., author. |
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| Imprint: | Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013] ©2013 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 286 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early Judaism and its literature ; number 39 Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481454 |
| Summary: | The Dead Sea Scrolls, which have long captured the public imagination, are now all available in principal editions and accessible translations. This book addresses the next stage in their analysis by raising questions about how they should be read and studied. The essays collected here illustrate two approaches. First, some essays argue that traditional methods of studying ancient texts need to be refined and broadened in the light of the Scrolls. The volume thus contains studies on text criticism, literary traditions, lexicography, historiography, and theology. Second, the book also argues that innovative methods of study, applied fruitfully in other areas, now also need to be applied to the Scrolls, such as studies that consider the relevance for the Scrolls of deviance theory, cultural memory, hypertextuality, intertextuality, genre theory, spatial analysis, and psychology. Many of the examples in these studies relate to how authoritative scripture was handled and appropriated by the groups that gathered the Scrolls together in the caves at and near Qumran, so some of the same texts are analyzed from several different perspectives. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781589839021 1589839021 130600103X 9781306001038 9781589839014 1589839013 9781589839038 158983903X |