The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17. By Daniel A. Machiela

This volume presents the fruits of the author’s doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of James VanderKam and is made up of four chapters and a conclusion. Chapter 1 lays out the aims of the volume and offers a clear overview over current issues in the...

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Main Author: Hempel, Charlotte (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2012
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 676-677
Review of:The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009) (Hempel, Charlotte)
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:This volume presents the fruits of the author’s doctoral dissertation completed at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of James VanderKam and is made up of four chapters and a conclusion. Chapter 1 lays out the aims of the volume and offers a clear overview over current issues in the study of the Qumran Genesis Apocryphon, such as its genre, exegetical and theological characteristics, provenance, and the work’s relationship to other ancient Jewish literature and 1 Enoch and Jubilees in particular. Chapter 2 comprises a new edition of the text of the Apocryphon based on a comprehensive study of the additional columns published in the 1990s (see especially M. Morgenstern, E. Qimron, and D.
ISSN:1477-4607
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls067