RT Book T1 Reading the Present in the Qumran Library: The Perception of the Contemporary by Means of Scriptural Interpretations A1 Lange, Armin A2 De Troyer, Kristin LA English PP Atlanta PB Society of Biblical Literature YR 2005 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1696376270 AB 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. NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources SN 9781589833050 K1 Bible ; O.T ; Criticism, interpretation, etc K1 Bible ; O.T ; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish K1 Bible ; O.T ; Influence K1 Contemporary, The K1 Dead Sea Scrolls K1 Electronic books