
Pesharim
Timothy H. Lim(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 1. October 2002
Book
Hardback
125 pages
978-1-84127-325-9 (ISBN)
Description
The biblical commentaries from Qumran (the Pesharim) are well known, but students and interested readers often find the voluminous scholarship on the subject daunting and a grasp of their exegeses challenging. In this user-friendly textbook, the reader is introduced to basic and less obvious features of Qumran exegeses. Illustrated with examples in English, this book systematically discusses the textual characteristics of the quoted biblical verses; the literary genre of pesher and its comparison to rabbinic midrash; features of sectarian exegesis; the nature of its historical allusions; and the commonalities, whether real or imagined, that it shares with the New Testament. It takes account of relevant and recently published texts (such as 4Q252) and includes an annotated bibliography.
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Edition
Annotated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Annotated edition
Illustrations
bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84127-325-9 (9781841273259)
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Timothy H. Lim is Reader in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies at the University of Edinburgh. An editor of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series, he has also published 'The Dead Sea Scrolls: Electronic Reference Library Volume 1' (Oxford/Leiden: OUP/Brill Academic Publishers, 1997) and authored 'Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commenta'.