Reading the Dead Sea scrolls
Subtitle: essays in method
By: George J. Brooke, with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste
Series: Society of Biblical Literature. Early Judaism and its literature -- number 39
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781589839038; 9781589839014; 9781589839021
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism; title: The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition; title: Justifying deviance: the place of scripture in converting to a Qumran self-understanding; title: Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture; title: Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls; title: Controlling Intertexts and Hierarchies of Echo in two thematic eschatalogical commentaries from Qumran; title: Pesher and midras in Qumran literature: issues for lexicography; title: Genre theory, rewritten Bible and Pesher; title: Room for interpretation: an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim; title: The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons: a psychodynamic reading of the Qumran scrolls; title: The silent God, aboused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of Scriptural exegesis in the Pesharim; title: Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls; title: What makes a text historical? assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls; title: The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.