Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible - The Biblical Patriarchs in the Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob's career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

About the author

Dr. theol. Reinhard Gregor Kratz, geb. 1957, ist Professor für Altes Testament und Leiter der Abteilung Biblische Archäologie an der Theol. Fakultät der Universität Göttingen.

Report

"Ein Stellenindex beschließt den wichtigen Band, der eine Fülle von neuen Erkenntnissen sowohl für die Rezeption der Patriarchentraditionen als auch für die Fragen nach der Bedeutung von 'biblischer' Exegese in Qumran bietet."
Anselm C. Hagedorn in: ZAW 2017; 129(1): 167

Product details

• Assisted by: Devora Dimant (Editor), Devorah Dimant (Editor), G Kratz (Editor), G Kratz (Editor), Reinhard G. Kratz (Editor), Reinhard Gr. Kratz (Editor), Reinhard Gregor Kratz (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9783110290424
• ISBN: 978-3-11-029042-4
• No. of pages: 299
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 21 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity