Challenges to Conventional Opinions on Qumran and Enoch Issues
Biographical note
Paul Heger, PhD (Toronto, 1996), is the author of Development of the Incense Cult in Israel (1997), Three Biblical Altar Laws (1999), and Pluralistic Halakhah (2003) (de Gruyter), Cult as the Catalyst for Division (2007, Brill), and numerous journal articles.
Readership
Scholars and students of the Dead Sea Scrolls, particularly of Qumran’s interpretive system vs. rabbinic methods; interpretation of apocryphal literature in accordance with assumed conceptions of ancient readers and audiences.
Table of contents
1.Introduction
2.Rabbinic And Qumran Interpretation Systems
3.The Attribution Of Modern Concepts To Authors And Readers Of Ancient Texts
4.Enoch: Complementary or Alternative to Mosaic Torah?
5.Jubilees and the Mosaic Torah
6.Another Look at Dualism in Qumran Writings
7.Against a Theory of Dual Determinism in 1QS and 1QHa
8.Epilogue
2.Rabbinic And Qumran Interpretation Systems
3.The Attribution Of Modern Concepts To Authors And Readers Of Ancient Texts
4.Enoch: Complementary or Alternative to Mosaic Torah?
5.Jubilees and the Mosaic Torah
6.Another Look at Dualism in Qumran Writings
7.Against a Theory of Dual Determinism in 1QS and 1QHa
8.Epilogue
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