Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls : : Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran / / Bruce McComiskey.
Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of the rhetoric of these texts illustrates how th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) :; 2 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Rhetorics of Identification, Distinction, and Persuasion in Miqsat Maʿaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT)
- Chapter 2 Performative Rhetorical Strategies in the Rule of the Community (1QS)
- Chapter 3 Dissociation as a Rhetorical Strategy in the Damascus Document (CD)
- Chapter 4 Impurity and Purification as Material Rhetoric in the Purification Rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple Scroll (11QT)
- Chapter 5 Hermeneutics/Rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Resources for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Index