Brooke, George J. <br/><br/>
Reading the Dead Sea scrolls :  essays in method /  [electronic resource] 
George J. Brooke ; with the assistance of Nathalie LaCoste. 
 - 1 online resource (309 pages) 
 - Early Judaism and its literature ;  number 39 .
 - Early Judaism and its literature ;  no. 39. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes. 
<br/><br/> The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism --  The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition --  Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding --  Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture --  Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls --  Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran --  Pešer and midraš in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography --  Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher --  Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim --  The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim --  Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls --  What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls --  The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781589839021 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Dead Sea scrolls.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Manuscripts, Hebrew.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM487  / .B76 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.1/55