The use of sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls
By: Matthew A. Collins.
Series: T & T Clark library of biblical studies; The library of Second Temple studies -- v. 67; Library of Second Temple studies -- 67.
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780567033642
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls; Judaism -- Sacred books -- Terminology
Description: This book constitutes an examination of key sobriquets found among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. Its primary focus is literary rather than historical and concentrates on the function of the sobriquets as labels utilised positively or negatively within the sectarian compositions.
Notes: "A Continuum imprint"

Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Bristol, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-252) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The sobriquets and the Scrolls; title: Formative sectarian period; title: Early sectarian period; title: Late sectarian period; title: The development of the Qumran sobriquets.