Reading and re-reading scripture at Qumran / by Moshe J. Bernstein.

• Author: Bernstein, Moshe J.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 107; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 107.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (773 p.)
• Notes: "These volumes contain thirty essays, written over the last thirty-three years (with the very large majority over the last two decades), focusing on or touching upon a variety of the ways that Scripture (what became what we have come to call the Hebrew Bible or TeNaKh) was read, interpreted, and employed at Qumran. All have been published before, including one essay that appeared in Hebrew originally and makes its first appearance here in English ... They have been edited only lightly"--Volume 1, page xii.

In Reading and Re-reading Scripture at Qumran , Moshe J. Bernstein gathers more than three decades of his work on diverse aspects of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays range from broad surveys of the genres of biblical interpretation in these texts to more narrowly focused studies and close readings of specific documents. Volume I focuses on the book of Genesis, with a substantial portion being dedicated to studies of the Genesis Apocryphon and Commentary on Genesis A. Volume II contains several historical and programmatic essays, with specific studies focusing on legal material in the DSS and the pesharim. Under the former rubric, the documents known as 4QReworked Pentateuch, 4QOrdinancesa, 4QMMT, and the Temple Scroll are discussed.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material Volume 1 -- Introduction to Volume 1 -- 1. Pentateuchal Interpretation at Qumran -- 2. “Rewritten Bible”: A Generic Category Which Has Outlived Its Usefulness? -- 3. Contours of Genesis Interpretation at Qumran: Contents, Context, and Nomenclature -- 4. 4Q252: From Re‑Written Bible to Biblical Commentary -- 5. 4Q252 i 2 לא ידור רוחי באדם לעולם : Biblical Text or Biblical Interpretation? -- 6. 4Q252. Method and Context, Genre and Sources (A Response to George J. Brooke, “The Thematic Content of 4Q252”) -- 7. From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon -- 8. Rearrangement, Anticipation and Harmonization as Exegetical Features in the Genesis Apocryphon -- 9. Divine Titles and Epithets and the Sources of the Genesis Apocryphon -- 10. The Genre(s) of the Genesis Apocryphon -- 11.Is the Genesis Apocryphon a Unity? What Sort of Unity Were You Looking For? -- 12. The Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Targumim Revisited: A View from Both Perspectives -- 13. Three Notes on 4Q464 -- 14. Noah and the Flood at Qumran -- 15. Angels at the Aqedah: A Study in the Development of a Midrashic Motif -- Preliminary Material Volume 2 -- Introduction to Volume 2 -- 16. The Contribution of the Qumran Discoveries to the History of Early Biblical Interpretation -- 17. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity: A Multi-Generic Perspective -- 18. Pseudepigraphy in the Qumran Scrolls: Categories and Functions -- 19. The Interpretation of Biblical Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Forms and Methods (with Shlomo A. Koyfman) -- 20. What Has Happened to the Laws? The Treatment of Legal Material in 4QReworked Pentateuch -- 21. The Re-Presentation of “Biblical” Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa) -- 22. 4Q159: Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre -- 23. 4Q159 Fragment 5 and the “Desert Theology” of the Qumran Sect -- 24. The Employment and Interpretation of Scripture in 4QMMT: Preliminary Observations -- 25. Midrash Halakhah at Qumran? 11QTemple 64.6–13 and Deuteronomy 21:22–23 -- כי קללת אלהים תלוי . 26 (Deut. 21:23): A Study in Early Jewish Exegesis -- 27. Women and Children in Legal and Liturgical Texts from Qumran -- 28.Introductory Formulas for Citation and Re‑Citation of Biblical Verses in the Qumran Pesharim: Observations on a Pesher Technique -- 29. “Walking in the Festivals of the Gentiles:” 4QpHoseaa 2:15–17 and Jubilees 6:34–38 -- Biblical Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Looking Back and Looking Ahead -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Scholars.