History, ideology and Bible interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Subtitle: collected studies
By: Devorah Dimant
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 90; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 90.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9783161510212
Subjects: History; Qumrantexte; Ideologie; Qumran community; Bible; Dead Sea scrolls; Relation to the Bible; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Geschichte
Notes: Collection of contributions published previously, updated and revised for this edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-569) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introductory essay : the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls : past and present -- -- The Qumran library.; title: The Qumran manuscripts : contents and significance --; title: The vocabulary of the Qumran sectarian texts --; title: Sectarian and nonsectarian texts from Qumran : The pertinence and use of a taxonomy --; title: Between sectarian and nonsectarian : the case of the Apocryphon of Joshua --; title: Between Qumran sectarian and Qumran nonsectarian texts : the case of Belial and Mastema --; title: Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha at Qumran --; title: The composite character of the Qumran sectarian literature as an indication of its date and provenance --; title: The Qumran Aramaic texts and the Qumran community --; title: Themes and genres in the Aramaic texts from Qumran -- -- The history of the Qumran community.; title: The history of the Qumran community in light of new developments in the study of the scrolls --; title: Themes in the Qumran literature --; title: Resurrection, restoration, and time-curtailing at Qumran, and in early Judaism and Christianity --; title: 4QFlorilegium and the idea of the community as a temple --; title: The volunteers in the Rule of the community : a biblical notion in sectarian garb --; title: Time, Torah and prophecy at Qumran --; title: Exegesis and time in the Pesharim from Qumran -- -- Texts from Qumran.; title: The Apocryphon of Joshua : 4Q522 9 ii : a reappraisal --; title: Two "Scientific" fictions : the so-called book of Noah and the alleged quotation from Jubilees in the Damascus document XVI, 3-4 --; title: What is the "Book of the Divisions of the Times"? --; title: The Pesher on the Periods (4Q180) and 4Q181 --; title: On righteous and sinners : 4Q181 reconsidered --; title: Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C in perspective --; title: Not the Testament of Judah but the Words of Benjamin : the character of 4Q538 --; title: Not exile in the desert but exile in spirit : the Pesher of Isa 40:3 in the Rule of the community and the history of the Scrolls community --; title: Men as angels : the self-image of the Qumran community --; title: David's youth in the Qumran context (11QPs[superscript]a XXVIII, 3-12) --; title: Abraham the astrologer at Qumran? : observations on Pseudo-jubilees (4Q225 2 i 3-8) --; title: Melchizedek at Qumran and in Judaism.