Capturing the Voices of Pseudepigraphic Personae: On the Form and Function of Incipits in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

It is widely recognized that the authors of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls often shrouded their tales in first person voices and exhibited a perennial interest in the production and transmission of ancestral booklore. The present study explores the literary convention of the incipit in light of these...

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Main Author: Perrin, Andrew B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2013, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 98-123
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Aramaic language / Pseudepigrapha / Genesis-Apokryphon (Qumran Scrolls) / Henoch / Tobit, Biblical person / Amram, Biblical person / Nabonidus Babylonia, King 609 BC-539 BC / Ahikar ca. 700 v.Chr.
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Aramaic Pseudepigrapha Genesis Apocryphon Enoch Tobit Amram Nabonidus Michael Ahiqar
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