Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introducing Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism -- Rethinking the Bible Sixty Years of Dead Sea Scrolls Research and Beyond -- The "Apocalyptic" Community, the Matrix of the Teacher and Rewriting Scripture -- Authoritative Scriptures and Scribal Culture -- From 4QReworked Pentateuch to 4QPentateuch (?) -- Authoritative Scripture as Reflected in the Textual Transmission of the Biblical Books: The Case of 1 Kings 3-10 -- Quelques Observations sur le 'Canon' des « Écrits » -- Reflections on the Status of the Early Enochic Writings -- Aramaic Texts from Qumran and the Authoritativeness of Hebrew Scriptures: Preliminary Observations -- Daniel and the Qumran Daniel Cycle: Observations on 4QFour Kingdomsa-b (4Q552-553) -- Pluralism and Authoritativeness: The Case of the S Tradition -- Prophecy and History in the Pesharim -- Prophet, Books and Texts: Ezekiel, Pseudo-Ezekiel and the Authoritativeness of Ezekiel Traditions in Early Judaism -- Text and Figure in Ancient Jewish Paideia -- Ancestral, Oracular and Prophetic Authority: "Scriptural Authority" According to Paul and Philo -- The Words of the Prophecy of this Book": Playing with Scriptural Authority in the Book of Revelation -- From Holy Books to Holy Bible: An Itinerary from Ancient Greece to Modern Islam via Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity -- Index of modern authors -- Index of ancient sources.

The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process. This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.

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