Pesharim

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ISBN: 9781841272733 | 1841272736
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Copyright: 10/1/2002

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Taking account of all relevant and recently published texts and with an annotated bibliography, this is an authoritative guide to the Qumran scrolls for the student or non-specialist scholar.

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Preface
Abbreviations
Editions, Translations and Bibliographies	p. 1
Introduction	p. 7
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Scrolls	p. 7
The Essenes and the Qumran Community	p. 9
The Study of the Scrolls and Confessionalism	p. 11
A Community of Study	p. 12
The Pesharim	p. 13
Types of Pesharim	p. 14
Pesherite Biblical Quotations	p. 15
Editing Scrolls	p. 19
Dating the Pesharim	p. 20
Bibliographical Note	p. 22
The Continuous Pesharim	p. 24
Diversity of Exegeses in the Pesharim	p. 27
Common and Distinctive Features	p. 40
The Genre of Pesher: Definition and Categorization	p. 44
The Thematic Pesharim	p. 46
Midrash	p. 48
Midrash Eschatology	p. 51
Pesher as a Distinct Genre	p. 52
Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim	p. 54
On Identifying Exegetical Variants	p. 57
Textual Nature of Biblical Quotations Found in the Pesharim	p. 62
History in the Pesharim	p. 64
Sobriquets and Titles	p. 65
1Q Hodayot as a Source for the Pesharim	p. 78
Imitating the Prophetic Style	p. 79
Pesher and the New Testament	p. 81
Common Sectarian Matrix	p. 83
Bibliography	p. 86
Index of References	p. 98
Index of Authors	p. 105
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