Reading the Dead Sea scrolls : : essays in method / / George J. Brooke ; with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste.

• Superior document: Early Judaism and its literature ; number 39
• Author: Brooke, George J.
• TeilnehmendeR: LaCoste, Nathalie.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta : : Society of Biblical Literature,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)
• Other title: The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism --; The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition --; Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding --; Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture --; Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls --; Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran --; Peser and midras in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography --; Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher --; Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim --; The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim --; Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls --; What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls --; The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9781589839014; 9781589839021
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George J. Brooke ; with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste.