Rewriting and interpreting the Hebrew Bible
Subtitle: the biblical patriarchs in the light of the Dead Sea scrolls
By: edited by Devorah Dimant and Reinhard G. Kratz
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Bd. 439; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- Bd. 439.
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783110290424; 9783110290554
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Patriarchs (Bible)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bible interpreting itself  -- Moshe Bar-Asher; title: Textual harmonization in the stories of the patriarchs  -- Emmanuel Tov; title: Where are the patriarchs in the literature of Qumran?  -- Moshe J. Bernstein; title: The first patriarchs : law and narrative in the Garden of Eden story  -- Michael Segal; title: The flood as a preamble to the lives of the patriarchs : the perspective of Qumran Hebrew texts  -- Devorah Dimant; title: The flood as a preamble to the lives of the patriarchs : the biblical perspective  -- Reinhard G. Kratz; title: Sodom and Gomorrah : from the Bible to Qumran  -- Roman Vielhauer; title: Jacob and his house in the scrolls from Qumran  -- George J. Brooke; title: With my sword and bow : Jacob as warrior in Jubilees  -- Atar Livneh; title: Levi, the Levites, and the law  -- Harald Samuel; title: The burial of the fathers in the Visions of Amram from Qumran  -- Liora Goldman; title: The patriarchs and halakhah in the Dead Sea scrolls  -- Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: Shabbat, circumcision and circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea scrolls -- Aharon Shemesh.