Reworking the Bible : : apocryphal and related texts at Qumran : proceedings of a joint symposium by the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature and the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies Research Group on Qumran, 15-17 January, 2002 / / edited by Esther G. Chazon, Devorah Dimant and Ruth A. Clements.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 58
• Author: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature.
• TeilnehmendeR: Chazon, Esther G.; Dimant, Devorah.; Clements, Ruth.; Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature.; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Makhon le-limudim mitḳadmim.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 245 pages)

This book contains papers presented at a symposium on “Reworking the Bible at Qumran” convened in 2002 by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The core theme is the use and interpretation of the Bible in apocryphal and related works found at Qumran. Nearly half the papers treat legal interpretation; the other half, examines narrative exegesis. Key issues include the question of the authority of the reworked biblical texts, their exegetical techniques, motifs, and genres. This collection provides a valuable resource for the study of Bible, the history of interpretation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Esther G. Chazon , Devorah Dimant and Ruth A. Clements -- From Israel’s Burden to Israel’s Debt: Towards a Theology of Sin in Biblical and Early Second Temple Sources / Gary A. Anderson -- The Avoidance of the Death Penalty in Qumran Law / Joseph Baumgarten -- From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Pesher Nahum, Psalms of Solomon and Pompey / Shani Berrin -- Between Authority and Canon: The Significance of Reworking the Bible for Understanding the Canonical Process / George J. Brooke -- Between Sectarian and Non-Sectarian: The Case of the Apocryphon of Joshua / Devorah Dimant -- Burying the Fathers: Exegetical Strategies and Source Traditions in Jubilees 46 / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- Physical and Metaphysical Measurements Ordained by God in the Literature of the Second Temple Period / Menahem Kister -- Sacrificial Halakhah in the Fragments of the Aramaic Levi Document from Qumran, the Cairo Genizah, and Mt. Athos Monastery / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- The Relationship Between the Legal and Narrative Passages in Jubilees / Michael Segal -- Index of Modern Authors / Esther G. Chazon , Devorah Dimant and Ruth A. Clements -- Index of Ancient Sources / Esther G. Chazon , Devorah Dimant and Ruth A. Clements.