Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible
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Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible

The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

About this book

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob's career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

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Yes, you can access Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible by Devorah Dimant,Reinhard G. Kratz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Ancient Religion. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9783110290424
eBook ISBN
9783110290554
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ancient Religion

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. The Bible Interpreting Itself
  3. Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs
  4. Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran?
  5. The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story
  6. The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts
  7. The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective
  8. Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran
  9. Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran
  10. With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees
  11. Levi, the Levites, and the Law
  12. The Burial of the Fathers in the 'Visions ofAmram from Qumran.
  13. The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  14. Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  15. Index