Reading the Present in the Qumran Library: The Perception of the Contemporary by Means of Scriptural Interpretations

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Is It True? Hermeneutical Reading of the Present -- Part 1: Dead Sea Scrolls -- Pesharim: A Mirror of Self-Understanding -- Contemporizing Halakic Exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jeremiah and the "Diaspora Letters" in Ancient Judaism -- Justifying D...

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Main Author: Lange, Armin (Author)
Contributors: De Troyer, Kristin (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Atlanta Society of Biblical Literature 2005
In:Year: 2005
Reviews:[Rezension von: Reading the present in the Qumran library] (2011) (Hughes, Julie A.)
Further subjects:B Bible ; O.T ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Contemporary, The
B Bible ; O.T ; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
B Bible ; O.T ; Influence
B Dead Sea Scrolls
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781589831506
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Is It True? Hermeneutical Reading of the Present -- Part 1: Dead Sea Scrolls -- Pesharim: A Mirror of Self-Understanding -- Contemporizing Halakic Exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jeremiah and the "Diaspora Letters" in Ancient Judaism -- Justifying Deviance: The Place of Scripture in Converting to a Qumran Self-Understanding -- Part 2: Ancient Judaism -- Reading the Present" in the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90) -- Why Has Daniel's Prophecy Not Been Fulfilled? The Question of Political Peace and Independence in the Additions to Daniel -- Part 3: The Textual Tradition of hte Hebrew and Greek Bible -- Reading Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period -- Building the Altar and Reading the Law: The Journeys of Joshua 8:30-35 -- Part 4: Authoritative Literature in Ancient Israel and Judah -- Interpreting the Exile: The Experience of the Destruction of the Temple and Devastation of the Land as Reflected within the Nonpentateuchal Biblical Abraham Tradition -- Reading the Decline of Prophecy -- Conclusions -- Reading theh Past, the Present, and the Future in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Biblical and Related Literature -- Index of Authors.
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ISBN:1589833058