Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : essays in method /

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Author / Creator:Brooke, George J., author.
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
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Other authors / contributors:LaCoste, Nathalie, contributor.
ISBN:9781589839021
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9781306001038
9781589839014
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9781589839038
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes.
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Other form:Print version: Brooke, George J. Reading the Dead Sea scrolls 9781589839014
Table of Contents:
  • The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism
  • The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition
  • Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding
  • Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture
  • Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls
  • Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran
  • Pešer and midraš in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography
  • Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher
  • Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim
  • The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim
  • Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls
  • What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls
  • The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.