Pesher and hypomnema : : a comparison of two commentary traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman period / / by Pieter B. Hartog.

• Superior document: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume 121
• VerfasserIn: Hartog, Pieter B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 121.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 pages, 6 numbered pages of plates) :; color illustrations.

In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad . Hartog shows that members of the movement which produced and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own needs. The connection between the Qumran Pesharim and Hypomnemata on the Iliad resulted from exchanges of scholarly knowledge across Hellenistic-Roman Egypt and Palestine. Analysing the effects of these knowledge exchanges, Pesher and Hypomnema demonstrates that members of the Qumran movement were thoroughly embedded within their Hellenistic and Roman environment.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Hypomnemata and the Pesharim as Expressions of Intellectual Culture -- Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Hypomnemata -- Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Pesharim -- A Bifold Structure -- Structure and Scholarship in the Hypomnemata -- Structure and Interpretation in the Pesharim -- Describing Hermeneutics -- A Hermeneutical Profile of the Hypomnemata -- A Hermeneutical Profile of the Pesharim -- Pesher and Hypomnema.