Rhetoric and the dead sea scrolls: purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran
Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purific...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-, Rhetoric and the dead sea scrolls : purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran] (2022) (Gurtner, Daniel M., 1973 -)
[Rezension von: McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-, Rhetoric and the dead sea scrolls : purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran] (2023) (Newsom, Carol Ann, 1950 -) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Rhetoric
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| Further subjects: | B
Qumran community
B Rhetoric Religious aspects Judaism B Essenes B Dead Sea Scrolls |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
Electronic |
| Summary: | Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT) -- Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab). "Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0271090154 |