Northern lights on the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the Nordic Qumran Network 2003-2006 / / edited by Anders Klostergaard Petersen ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 80
• TeilnehmendeR: Petersen, Anders Klostergaard.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Structured by four important themes, the book discusses various aspects pertaining to the interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first theme is comprised by a number of essays that deal with different aspects of textual interpretation of particular Qumran writings. The second theme centers on the question of historical referentiality. How can the purported referentiality of particular Qumran writings be used in order to reconstruct an underlying historical reality? The third theme includes essays that pertain to different dimensions concerning the methodology of interpretation. The fourth theme focuses on problems relating to the textual reconstruction of specific Qumran texts. In the final section of the book, the perspective is widened to other writings outside the more specific Qumran context.

Table of Contents

From Bible to midrash : approaches to biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea scrolls by modern interpreters / George J. Brooke -- Anatomy of a scene : Noah's covenant in Genesis Apocryphon XI / Daniel K. Falk -- The dream visions in the Noah story of the Genesis Apocryphon and related texts / Esther Eshel -- Selection, election, and rejection : interpretation of Genesis in 4Q252 / Juhana Markus Saukkonen -- Geography and ideology in the Copper Scroll (3Q15) from Qumran / Jesper Høgenhaven -- The two historical layers of Pesher Habakkuk / Hanan Eshel -- Who are the "fools" in 4QNarrative and Poetic Composition[superscript a-c]? / Magnar Kartveit -- The question of scribal exegesis at Qumran / Jonathan Norton -- Reading the human body and discerning zodiacal spirits : a proposal for the use of physiognomics in the Dead Sea scrolls / Mladen Popović -- A brotherhood at Qumran? Metaphorical familial language in the Dead Sea scrolls / Jutta Jokiranta and Cecilia Wassen -- The reconstruction of 4QMMT : a methodological critique / Ian Werrett -- 4QMMT : some new readings / Hanne von Weissenberg -- How to reconstruct a fragmented scroll : the puzzle of 4Q422 / Torleif Elgvin -- A villain and the VIPs : Josephus on Judas the Galilean and the Essenes / Gunnar Haaland -- The songs of the sabbath sacrifice and the heavenly scene of the book of Revelation / Håkan Ulfgard.