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The Dead Sea scrolls : transmission of traditions and production of texts

Summary: How were Jewish texts produced and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of both scriptural and interpretive traditions, which areas the Scrolls show so decisivelyintimately intertwined? How were texts assembled from a variety of earlier sources, both oral and written? Why were they often attributed to pseudonymous authors from the remote past such as Moses and David? How did the composers of these texts understand the enterprise in which they were engaged? This volume furthers current debates about Qumran Scribal Practice and the transmission of tr.

Record details

ISBN: 9004185844
ISBN: 9789004185845
ISBN: 661303939X
ISBN: 9786613039392
ISBN: 9781283039390
ISBN: 1283039397
ISBN: 9004190791
ISBN: 9789004190795
Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)
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Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	Tradition and innovation in the Dead Sea scrolls / John J. Collins -- Moses trumping Moses : making the book of Jubilees / James C. VanderKam -- Some translation and copying mistakes from the original Hebrew of the Testaments of the twelve patriarchs / James L. Kugel -- Why Nabonidus? Excavating traditions from Qumran, the Hebrew Bible, and neo-Babylonian sources / Carol A. Newsom -- The emergence of Aramaic and Hebrew scholarly texts : transmission and translation of alien wisdom / Mladen Popović -- Shared traditions : points of contact between S and D / Charlotte Hempel -- Aspects of the physical and scribal features of some Cave 4 "continuous" pesharim / George J. Brooke -- Some thoughts about the diffusion of biblical manuscripts in antiquity / Emanuel Tov -- Assessing Emanuel Tov's "Qumran scribal practice" / Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar -- The evolutionary production and transmission of the scriptural books / Eugene Ulrich -- Beyond the sectarian divide : the "voice of the teacher" as an authority-conferring strategy in some Qumran texts / Florentino García Martínez.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.