Dead Sea Scrolls : Transmission of Traditions and Production of Texts.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004190795Subject(s): Qumran communityGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dead Sea Scrolls : Transmission of Traditions and Production of TextsDDC classification: 296.15 LOC classification: BM487 -- .D4498 2010ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Tradition and Innovation in the Dead Sea Scrolls (John J. Collins) -- Moses Trumping Moses: Making the Book of Jubilees (James C. VanderKam) -- Some Translation and Copying Mistakes from the Original Hebrew of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (James L. Kugel) -- Why Nabonidus? Excavating Traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and Neo-Babylonian Sources (Carol A. Newsom) -- The Emergence of Aramaic and Hebrew Scholarly Texts: Transmission and Translation of Alien Wisdom (Mladen Popovic) -- Shared Traditions: Points of Contact Between S and D (Charlotte Hempel) -- Aspects of the Physical and Scribal Features of Some Cave 4 "Continuous" Pesharim (George J. Brooke) -- Some Thoughts About the Diffusion of Biblical Manuscripts in Antiquity (Emanuel Tov) -- Assessing Emanuel Tov's "Qumran Scribal Practice" (Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar) -- The Evolutionary Production and Transmission of the Scriptural Books (Eugene Ulrich) -- Beyond the Sectarian Divide: The "Voice of the Teacher" as an Authority-Conferring Strategy in Some Qumran Texts (Florentino Garcia Martinez) -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Primary Texts -- Subject Index.
This volume considers the transmission of interpretive traditions and the details of scribal practices. The essays explore the variety of ways that texts are interpreted at Qumran and also re-evaluates sectarian categorizations of texts along with distinctive scribal practices.
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