Biblical Perspectives : : Early Use and Interpretation of the Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / / edited by Michael Stone and Esther G. Chazon.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 28
• Author: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Stone, Michael E., 1938-; Chazon, Esther G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages)

This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic literature. Interpretive interests, techniques and traditions are examined in many types of ancient works: rewritten bibles, pseudepigrapha, legal codes, prayers, sapiential texts, admonitions and historical treatises. The authors highlight the contribution of the new finds from the Judean Desert to such major issues as attitudes to the Bible and the Law in antiquity, continuity and innovation vis a vis the biblical world, common and unique dimensions of interpretation among different groups in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods in particular, the Qumran sectarians and their opponents, New Testament authors and rabbinic Sages.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- THE STATUS OF THE TORAH IN THE PRE-SINAITIC / GARY A. ANDERSON -- SCRIPTURE AND LAW IN 4Q265 / JOSEPH M. BAUMGARTEN -- SHARED INTERTEXTUAL INTERPRETATIONS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE NEW TESTAMENT / GEORGE J. BROOKE -- LOOKING FOR LEGAL MIDRASH AT QUMRAN / STEVEN D. FRAADE -- “NARRATIVE EXEGESIS” IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / IDA FRÖHLICH -- A COMMON HERITAGE: BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AT QUMRAN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS / MENAHEM KISTER -- FOR KING JONATHAN OR AGAINST? THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN 4Q448 / EMMANUELLE MAIN -- PATRIARCHS WHO WORRY ABOUT THEIR WIVES / GEORGE W.E. NICKELSBURG -- POST-BIBLICAL RIB PATTERN ADMONITIONS IN 4Q302/302A AND 4Q381 69,76-77 / BILHAH NITZAN -- A NOTE ON THE USE OF THE BIBLE IN 1 MACCABEES / U. RAPPAPORT -- THE CASE OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT RITUAL / LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN -- ANCIENT JEWISH ASTROLOGY AN ATTEMPT TO INTERPRET 4QCRYPTIC (4Q186) / FRANCIS SCHMIDT -- THE USE OF BIBLICAL TERMS AS DESIGNATIONS FOR NON-BIBLICAL HYMNIC AND PRAYER COMPOSITIONS / EILEEN M. SCHULLER -- ON SOMETHING BIBLICAL ABOUT 2 MACCABEES / DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ -- THE REWRITTEN BOOK OF JOSHUA AS FOUND AT QUMRAN AND MASADA / EMANUEL TOV -- INDICES -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.