Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible: The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Published by De Gruyter 2013

Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Edited by: Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz

Volume 439 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290554

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About this book

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob’s career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

Author / Editor information

Devorah Dimant, University of Haifa, Israel; Reinhard G. Kratz, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany.

Reviews

"Ein Stellenindex beschließt den wichtigen Band, der eine Fülle von neuen Erkenntnissen sowohl für die Rezeption der Patriarchentraditionen als auch für die Fragen nach der Bedeutung von ›biblischer‹ Exegese in Qumran bietet."
Anselm C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 2017; 129(1): 167

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
The Bible Interpreting Itself Moshe Bar-Asher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs Emanuel Tov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran? Moshe J. Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story Michael Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts Devorah Dimant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective Reinhard G. Kratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran Roman Vielhauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran George J. Brooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees Atar Livneh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Levi, the Levites, and the Law Harald Samuel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
The Burial of the Fathers in the Visions of Amram from Qumran Liora Goldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls Lawrence H. Schiffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls Aharon Shemesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 299
Keywords: Dead Sea Scrolls; Qumran; Biblical Interpretation; Patriarchs; Genesis

eBook

Published: April 30, 2013
ISBN: 9783110290554

Hardcover

Published: March 15, 2013
ISBN: 9783110290424