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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814404303321

Titolo

Reading the present in the Qumran library : the perception of the contemporary by means of scriptural interpretations / / edited by Kristin De Troyer and Armin Lange ; with the assistance of Katie M. Goetz and Susan Bond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, : Society of Biblical Literature, c2005

ISBN

1-58983-305-8

1-4294-1098-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 236 p

Collana

Society of biblical literature symposium series ; ; no. 30

Altri autori (Persone)

De TroyerKristin

LangeArmin <1961->

Disciplina

221.6/09/01

Soggetti

Contemporary, The

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.