The mermaid and the partridge : essays from the Copenhagen Conference [June 2009] on revising texts from Cave Four / / edited by George J. Brooke and Jesper Hogenhaven.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 96
• TeilnehmendeR: Brooke, George J.; Høgenhaven, Jesper.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 96.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For some years a project has been under way to carry out a thoroughgoing revision of volume V in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan). The team of scholars responsible for the new edition - including many who have written monographs or extensive studies on the respective manuscripts for which they have now assumed responsibility - was invited by the Department of Biblical Exegesis of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen to meet in Copenhagen in June 2009. The conference offered the opportunity for the presentation of some working papers on topics that were of particular concern to the individual contributors to the revision. The present volume represents the ongoing work on the edition, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968) as well as important aspects of the present Qumran scholarship.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / G. Brooke and J. Høgenhaven -- Introduction / Jesper Høgenhaven and George J. Brooke -- Building Textual Bridges Towards An Understanding Of 4Q158 (4Qreworked Pentateuch A) / Molly M. Zahn -- 4Q159: Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Re-Reading 4QPesher Isaiah A (4Q161). Forty Years After DJD V / Alex P. Jassen -- Reading Hosea At Qumran / Roman Vielhauer -- Two Approaches To The Study Of Genre In 4Q172 / Trine B. Hasselbalch -- 4Q173a: A Part Of An Eschatological Midrash? / Søren Holst -- From Florilegium Or Midrash To Commentary: The Problem Of Re-Naming An Adopted Manuscript / George J. Brooke -- 4QTanhumim (4Q176): Between Exegesis And Treatise? / Jesper Høgenhaven -- Theme And Genre In 4Q177 And Its Scriptural Selections / Mark Laughlin and Shani Tzoref -- 4QSapiential Admonitions B (4Q185): Unsolved Challenges Of The Hebrew Text / Mika S. Pajunen -- 4Q186. 4QZodiacal Physiognomy. A Full Edition / Mladen Popović -- Allusions To The End Of The Hasmonean Dynasty In Pesher Nahum (4Q169) / Gregory L. Doudna -- Pesher Commentary And Its Afterlife In The New Testament / Mogens Müller -- Index Of Biblical References / G. Brooke and J. Høgenhaven -- Index Of Scrolls And Other Classical Sources / G. Brooke and J. Høgenhaven -- Index Of Modern Authors / G. Brooke and J. Høgenhaven.