Scripture and Interpretation: Qumran Texts That Rework the Bible

by Liora Goldman and Ariel Feldman

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for the first time a large sample of such compositions in their original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110302985
• ISBN13: 9783110302981
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"