Research Catalog

Title

Reading the present in the Qumran library : the perception of the contemporary by means of scriptural interpretations / edited by Kristin De Troyer and Armin Lange ; with the assistance of Katie M. Goetz and Susan Bond.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• De Troyer, Kristin.
• Lange, Armin, 1961-

Description

viii, 236 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 30

Uniform Title

Symposium series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 30.

Subjects

• Dead Sea scrolls
• Bible > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Contemporary, The
• Bible > Old Testament > Influence
• Bible > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and indexes.

Contents

• Is it true? hermeneutical reading of the present / Christine Helmer -- Pt. 1: Dead Sea Scrolls -- Pesharim: a mirror of self-understanding / Jutta Jokiranta -- Contemporizing Halakhic exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Jeremiah and the "Diaspora Letters" in ancient Judaism: epistolary communication with the Golah as medium for dealing with the present / Lutz Doering -- Justifying deviance: the place of scripture in converting to Qumran self-understanding / George J. Brooke -- Pt. 2: Ancient Judaism -- "Reading the present" in the animal apocalypse (1Enoch 85-90) / Loren T. Stuckenbruck --
• Why has Daniel's prophecy not been fulfilled? The question of political peace and independence in the additions to Daniel / Ulrike Mittmann-Richert -- Pt. 3: The textual tradition of the Hebrew and Greek Bible -- Reading Deuteronomy in the Second Temple period / Sidnie White Crawford -- Building the altar and reading the law: the journeys of Joshua 8:30-35 / Kristin De Troyer -- Pt. 4: Authoritative literature in ancient Israel and Judah -- Interpreting the Exile: the experience of the destruction of the Temple and devastation of the land as reflected within the nonpentateuchal Biblical Abraham tradition / Beate Ego --
• Reading the decline of prophecy / Armin Lange -- Conclusions -- Linking the past, the present, and the future in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls / Kristin De Troyer.

Call Number

*PDN 06-1907

ISBN

9004137610 (cloth binding : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005016876
• 9789004137615

OCLC

60697074

Title

Reading the present in the Qumran library : the perception of the contemporary by means of scriptural interpretations / edited by Kristin De Troyer and Armin Lange ; with the assistance of Katie M. Goetz and Susan Bond.

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Series

Society of Biblical Literature symposium series ; no. 30

Symposium series (Brill Academic Publishers) ; no. 30.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and indexes.

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Table of contents

Added Author

De Troyer, Kristin.

Lange, Armin, 1961-

Other Standard Identifier

9789004137615

Research Call Number

*PDN 06-1907