Biblical Perspectives

by Stone, Michael E.; Chazon, Esther G.; Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated lite

• ISBN13: 9789004109391
• ISBN10: 9004109390
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume explores the use and interpretation of the Bible in the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated apocryphal, early Christian and rabbinic literature.Interpretive interests, techniques and traditions are examined in many types of ancient works: rewritten bibles, pseudepigrapha, legal codes, prayers, sapiential texts, admonitions and historical treatises.The authors highlight the contribution of the new finds from the Judean Desert to such major issues as attitudes to the Bible and the Law in antiquity, continuity and innovation vis a vis the biblical world, common and unique dimensions of interpretation among different groups in the Second Temple and Rabbinic periods in particular, the Qumran sectarians and their opponents, New Testament authors and rabbinic Sages.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Status of the Torah in the Pre-Sinaitic Period: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans	1	(24)
GARY A. ANDERSON
Scripture and Law in 4Q265	25	(10)
JOSEPH M. BAUMGARTEN
Shared Intertextual Interpretations in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament	35	(24)
GEORGE G. BROOKE
Looking for Legal Midrash at Qumran	59	(22)
STEVEN D. FRAADE
"Narrative Exegesis" in the Dead Sea Scrolls	81	(20)
IDA FROHLICH
A Common Heritage: Biblical Interpretation at Qumran and its Implications	101	(12)
MENAHEM KISTER
For King Joshua or Against? The Use of the Bible in 4Q448	113	(24)
EMMANUELLE MAIN
Patriarchs Who Worry About Their Wives. A Haggadic Tendency in the Genesis Apocryphon	137	(22)
GEORGE W.E. NICKELSBURG
Post-Biblical Rib Pattern Admonitions in 4Q302/303a and 4Q381 69, 76-77	159	(16)
BILHAH NITZAN
A Note on the Use of the Bible in 1 Maccabees	175	(6)
U. RAPPAPORT
The Case of the Day of Atonement Ritual	181	(8)
LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN
Ancient Jewish Astrology. An Attempt to Interpret 4QCryptic (4Q186)	189	(18)
FRANCIS SCHMIDT
The Use of Biblical Terms as Designations for Non-Biblical Hymnic and Prayer Compositions	207	(16)
EILEEN M. SCHULLER
On Something Biblical About 2 Maccabees	223	(10)
DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ
The Rewritten Book of Joshua as Found at Qumran and Masada	233	(26)
EMANUEL TOV
Index of Ancient Sources	259	(30)
Index of Modern Authors	289