Research Catalog

Title

The pesharim and Qumran history : chaos or consensus? / James H. Charlesworth ; with appendices by Lidija Novakovic.

Author

Charlesworth, James H.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Novakovic, Lidija

Description

xiv, 171 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
• Dead Sea scrolls
• Qumran community > Historiography
• Qumran community

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The hermeneutics of the pesharim. Chaos regarding history camouflaged as hermeneutics? -- Qumran hermeneutics -- The sociology of Qumran hermeneutics -- The pesharim as fulfillment hermeneutics. II. The pesharim and Qumran history: chaos or consensus? Introduction -- Sources for Qumran history -- Synopsis of Qumran history: Phase I (Archaeological Period Ia): How to translate ...? -- Who was the Righteous Teacher? -- Who was the "Man of Lies"? -- Who was "the Wicked Priest"? -- The exodus of the Righteous Teacher -- Reactions to Archaeological Period Ia. Phase II (Archaeological Period Ib) -- Phase III (Archaeologial Period of Abandonment) -- Phase IV (Archaeological Period II): Were Qumranites conservative Essenes? -- Chaos or consensus? -- Phase V (Archaeological Period III): Results for reflection: Was Qumran a celibate monastery? -- Summary. The pesharim and Qumran history: What is a pesher? -- Methodology -- Summary. The date of the pesharim -- Historical allusions in the Pesharim. Historical allusions within Palestinian Judaism: The unparalleled authority of the Righteous Teacher -- The Righteous Teacher was a priest -- Faith in the Righteous Teacher -- The persecution of the Righteous Teacher and the calendar of his group -- The Wicked Priest -- The rise and fall of the Wicked Priest -- The end of the Wicked Priest -- The Man of the Lie (=Scoffer, the Souter of the Lie) -- The crucifixion of some Seekers-After-Smooth-Things -- Alexander Jannaeus -- Judah, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Historical allusions outside Palestinian Judaism: the Greeks and Romans -- The Kittim -- Demetrius -- Conclusion -- Appendixes by Professor Lidija Novakovic: Index of biblical quotations in the pesharim, other cmmentaries and related documents -- Text-critical variants in the pesharim, other commentaries, and related documents.

ISBN

0802839886 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002069679

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Harvard Library