Rewriting and interpreting the hebrew bible: the biblical patriarchs in the light of the dead sea scrolls
Preface; The Bible Interpreting Itself; Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs; Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran?; The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story; The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumra...
| Summary: | Preface; The Bible Interpreting Itself; Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs; Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran?; The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story; The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts; The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective; Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran; Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran; With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees; Levi, the Levites, and the Law The Burial of the Fathers in the 'Visions ofAmram from Qumran. The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Index In the recent two decades many unknown texts from Qumran have been published, which rework passages from the Hebrew Bible. Dated from the second and first centuries BCE these documents display the methods of biblical interpretation at this early stage and the links to the inner-biblical interpretation and final shaping of the Hebrew Bible. The volume concentrates on the various reworking of Genesis and the Patriarchs, which were a favorite subject of the owners of the Qumran library. The volume thus contributes to the exegesis of Genesis during the second and first centuries BCE, and its prehi |
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| ISBN: | 3110290553 |