Reading and Re-Reading Scripture at Qumran (2 vol. set)
Biographical note
Moshe J. Bernstein is Professor of Bible and Jewish History and David A. and Fannie M. Denenberg Chair in Biblical Studies at Yeshiva University. A member of the Dead Sea Scrolls International Editorial Team, he publishes extensively on early Jewish biblical interpretation.
Readership
Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls or early biblical interpretation, university and seminary libraries
Table of contents
1. Pentateuchal Interpretation at Qumran
2. “Rewritten Bible”: A Generic Category Which Has Outlived Its Usefulness?
3. The Contours of Genesis Interpretation at Qumran: Contents, Contexts and Nomenclature
4. 4Q252: From Re-Written Bible to Biblical Commentary
5. 4Q252 i 2 לא ידור רוחי באדם לעולם : Biblical Text or Biblical Interpretation?
6. 4Q252. Method and Context, Genre and Sources (A Response to George J. Brooke, “The Thematic Content of 4Q252”)
7. From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon
8. Re-Arrangement, Anticipation and Harmonization as Exegetical Features in the Genesis Apocryphon
9. Divine Titles and Epithets and the Sources of the Genesis Apocryphon
10. The Genre(s) of the Genesis Apocryphon
11. Is the Genesis Apocryphon a Unity? What Sort of Unity Were You Looking For?
12. The Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Targumim Revisited: A View from Both Perspectives
13. Three Notes on 4Q464 (translated from the Hebrew, “4Q464 (”שלש הערות על תעודת קומראן
14. Noah and the Flood at Qumran
15. Angels at the Aqedah: A Study in the Development of a Midrashic Motif
16. The Contribution of the Qumran Discoveries to the History of Early Biblical Interpretation
17. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity: A Multi-Generic Perspective”
18. Pseudepigraphy in the Qumran Scrolls: Categories and Functions
19. The Interpretation of Biblical Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Forms and Methods [with Shlomo A. Koyfman]
20. What Has Happened to the Laws? The Treatment of Legal Material in 4QReworked Pentateuch
21. The Re-Presentation of “Biblical” Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa)
22. 4Q159: Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre
23. 4Q159 Fragment 5 and the “Desert Theology” of the Qumran Sect
24. The Employment and Interpretation of Scripture in 4QMMT: Preliminary Observations
25. Midrash Halakhah at Qumran? 11QTemple 64.6–13 and Deuteronomy 21:22–23
כי קללת אלהים תלוי . 26 (Deut. 21:23): A Study in Early Jewish Exegesis
27. Women and Children in Legal and Liturgical Texts from Qumran
28. Introductory Formulas for Citation and Re-Citation of Biblical Verses in the Qumran Pesharim: Observations on a Pesher Technique
29. “Walking in the Festivals of the Gentiles:” 4QpHoseaa and Jubilees 6:34–38
30. Biblical Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
2. “Rewritten Bible”: A Generic Category Which Has Outlived Its Usefulness?
3. The Contours of Genesis Interpretation at Qumran: Contents, Contexts and Nomenclature
4. 4Q252: From Re-Written Bible to Biblical Commentary
5. 4Q252 i 2 לא ידור רוחי באדם לעולם : Biblical Text or Biblical Interpretation?
6. 4Q252. Method and Context, Genre and Sources (A Response to George J. Brooke, “The Thematic Content of 4Q252”)
7. From the Watchers to the Flood: Story and Exegesis in the Early Columns of the Genesis Apocryphon
8. Re-Arrangement, Anticipation and Harmonization as Exegetical Features in the Genesis Apocryphon
9. Divine Titles and Epithets and the Sources of the Genesis Apocryphon
10. The Genre(s) of the Genesis Apocryphon
11. Is the Genesis Apocryphon a Unity? What Sort of Unity Were You Looking For?
12. The Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Targumim Revisited: A View from Both Perspectives
13. Three Notes on 4Q464 (translated from the Hebrew, “4Q464 (”שלש הערות על תעודת קומראן
14. Noah and the Flood at Qumran
15. Angels at the Aqedah: A Study in the Development of a Midrashic Motif
16. The Contribution of the Qumran Discoveries to the History of Early Biblical Interpretation
17. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity: A Multi-Generic Perspective”
18. Pseudepigraphy in the Qumran Scrolls: Categories and Functions
19. The Interpretation of Biblical Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Forms and Methods [with Shlomo A. Koyfman]
20. What Has Happened to the Laws? The Treatment of Legal Material in 4QReworked Pentateuch
21. The Re-Presentation of “Biblical” Legal Material at Qumran: Three Cases from 4Q159 (4QOrdinancesa)
22. 4Q159: Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre
23. 4Q159 Fragment 5 and the “Desert Theology” of the Qumran Sect
24. The Employment and Interpretation of Scripture in 4QMMT: Preliminary Observations
25. Midrash Halakhah at Qumran? 11QTemple 64.6–13 and Deuteronomy 21:22–23
כי קללת אלהים תלוי . 26 (Deut. 21:23): A Study in Early Jewish Exegesis
27. Women and Children in Legal and Liturgical Texts from Qumran
28. Introductory Formulas for Citation and Re-Citation of Biblical Verses in the Qumran Pesharim: Observations on a Pesher Technique
29. “Walking in the Festivals of the Gentiles:” 4QpHoseaa and Jubilees 6:34–38
30. Biblical Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
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