Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls: An Assessment of Old and New Approaches and Methods. Edited by Maxine L. Grossman
At a conference in Jerusalem a while ago, a renowned Qumran scholar said with a sigh, ‘It’s time for Scrolls scholarship to grow up and realise that the writers of our texts did not set out to satisfy our curiosity on historical issues’. A professor of Hebrew Bible studies retorted, ‘it took biblica...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 633-635 |
| Review of: | Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, Mich. [u.a.] : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2010) (Holst, Søren)
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| Summary: | At a conference in Jerusalem a while ago, a renowned Qumran scholar said with a sigh, ‘It’s time for Scrolls scholarship to grow up and realise that the writers of our texts did not set out to satisfy our curiosity on historical issues’. A professor of Hebrew Bible studies retorted, ‘it took biblical scholarship 200 years, why should things go faster for you?’, to which the Qumran scholar replied ‘but can’t we learn from you right away, rather than wait another 150 years? Some of us might be dead by then!’, The present book might have been designed with that purpose in mind. It is not just another collection of (however excellent) individual articles orbiting a vaguely defined common thematic denominator. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt093 |