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

The Dead Sea scrolls : transmission of traditions and production of texts / edited by Sarianna Metso. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010. - 1 online resource (272 pages) - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 92 0169-9962 ; . - Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 92. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

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.


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Dead Sea scrolls--Congresses.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Qumrantexte


Qumran community--Congresses.
Communauté de Qumrān--Congrès.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Qumran community.


Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.

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