Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran

by Bruce McComiskey

Book Overview

Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of the rhetoric of these texts illustrates how the Essenes employed different rhetorics over time as they struggled to understand God's word and their mission to their people, who seemed to have turned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271090162
• ISBN13: 9780271090160
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"