Pesharim

Pesharim

by Lim, Timothy

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The Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series offers comprehensive and accessible introductions to the corpus of texts from Qumran. This volume, devoted to the characteristic biblical commentaries, discusses their contents and history, as well as their generic relationship to both New Testament and rabbinic scriptural exegesis. As with all the books in this series, this Guide is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes. This book introduces the reader to one of the most important genres of sec…

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  • Full title :Pesharim.

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The Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series offers comprehensive and accessible introductions to the corpus of texts from Qumran. This volume, devoted to the characteristic biblical commentaries, discusses their contents and history, as well as their generic relationship to both New Testament and rabbinic scriptural exegesis. As with all the books in this series, this Guide is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes. This book introduces the reader to one of the most important genres of sectarian writing from Qumran: the Pesharim, or biblical commentaries. Timothy Lim systematically discuss.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

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  • Description:1 online resource (117 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780567586926, 0567586928
  • oclc:ocn893331041
  • LC Classification:BM487
  • Dewey Decimal:296.155

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Editions, Translations and Bibliographies; 1. Introduction; 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Scrolls; 2. The Essenes and the Qumran Community; 3. The Study of the Scrolls and Confessionalism; 4. A Community of Study; 5. The Pesharim; 6. Types of Pesharim; 7. Pesherite Biblical Quotations; 8. Editing Scrolls; 9. Dating the Pesharim; 10. Bibliographical Note; 2. The Continuous Pesharim; 1. Diversity of Exegeses in the Pesharim; 2. Common and Distinctive Features; 3. The Genre of Pesher: Definition and Categorization; 1. The Thematic Pesharim.

2. Midrash3. Midrash Eschatology; 4. Pesher as a Distinct Genre; 4. Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim; 1. On Identifying Exegetical Variants; 2. Textual Nature of Biblical Quotations Found in the Pesharim; 5. History in the Pesharim; 1. Sobriquets and Titles; 2. 1Q Hodayot as a Source for the Pesharim; 3. Imitating the Prophetic Style; 6. Pesher and the New Testament; 1. Common Sectarian Matrix; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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