ISBN:
9789004344525
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9004344527
Language:
English
Pages:
xl, 558 p. :
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ill. ;
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25 cm.
Year of publication:
2017
Series Statement:
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 119
Series Statement:
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah;
Abstract:
This volume is offered as a tribute to George Brooke to mark his sixty-fifth birthday. It has been conceived as a coherent contribution to the question of textuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls explored from a wide range of perspectives. These include material aspects of the texts, performance, reception, classification, scribal culture, composition, reworking, form and genre, and the issue of the extent to which any of the texts relate (to) social realities in the Second Temple period. Almost every contribution engages with Brooke's own remarkably wide-ranging, incisive, and innovative research on the Scrolls. The twenty-eight contributors are colleagues and students of the honouree and include leading scholars alongside promising new voices from across the field.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioata, and Charlotte Hempel -- Part 1. Is there a text in this cave? Are there sacred texts in Qumran?: the concept of sacred text in light of the Qumran collection / Hanne von Weissenberg and Elisa Uusimaki ; Textual authority and the problem of the biblical canon at Qumran / Philip S. Alexander ; Reflections on literacy, textuality, and community in the Qumran Dead Sea scrolls / Charlotte Hempel ; Scribal bodies as liturgical bodies: the formation of scriptures in early Judaism / Judith H. Newman ; Qumran Cave 4: its archaeology and its manuscript collection / Sidnie White Crawford -- Part 2. Fresh perspectives on fragmentary scrolls. Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel: 4QDnf=4Q116a / Emile Puech ; 4Q341: a writing exercise remembered / Joan E. Taylor ; 4Q47 (4QJosha): an abbreviated text? / Ariel Feldman ; Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1-3): the imprecatory function of the Edomite genealogy in the Dead Sea scrolls / Kipp Davis --
Note:
In the table of contents, the final letter of the scroll titles 4QDnf, 4Q116a, 4QJosha, and 4QBerakhota are all superscript letters.
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Contributions primarily in English, with one in French.
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