Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran

Download or read book Reworking the Bible: Apocryphal and Related Texts at Qumran written by Esther G. Chazon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains papers presented at a symposium on “Reworking the Bible at Qumran” convened in 2002 by the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The core theme is the use and interpretation of the Bible in apocryphal and related works found at Qumran. Nearly half the papers treat legal interpretation; the other half, examines narrative exegesis. Key issues include the question of the authority of the reworked biblical texts, their exegetical techniques, motifs, and genres. This collection provides a valuable resource for the study of Bible, the history of interpretation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, ancient Judaism and early Christianity.