To Increase Learning for the Understanding Ones
Reading and Reconstructing the Fragmentary Early Jewish Sapiential Text 4QInstruction
Published on 30. November 2001
Book
Leather / fine binding
272 pages
978-90-04-11678-8 (ISBN)
Description
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the early Jewish sapiential composition 4QInstruction which was found in fragmentary manuscripts at Qumran.
The first part focuses on the reading and joining of the fragments, and gives an approximate reconstruction of the manuscripts and the composition. The second part discusses some disputed sections and themes in more detail, especially the beginning of the composition (4Q416 1), its relation to the Community Rule and the Hodayot, alleged sacerdotal fragments (4Q415 1 ii-2 I and 4Q418 81), as well as fragments describing fate after death (4Q418 55 and 69 ii).
The first part is intended as a supplement to the official DJD edition, whereas the second part is of a more general interest.
The first part focuses on the reading and joining of the fragments, and gives an approximate reconstruction of the manuscripts and the composition. The second part discusses some disputed sections and themes in more detail, especially the beginning of the composition (4Q416 1), its relation to the Community Rule and the Hodayot, alleged sacerdotal fragments (4Q415 1 ii-2 I and 4Q418 81), as well as fragments describing fate after death (4Q418 55 and 69 ii).
The first part is intended as a supplement to the official DJD edition, whereas the second part is of a more general interest.
Reviews / Votes
'This monograph is marked by its technical precision and lucid presentation.'Banjamin G. Wold, Dead Sea Discoveries, 2003.
'...a valuable contribution to the study of 4Qinstruction...'
Matthew Goff, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2003.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-11678-8 (9789004116788)
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Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Ph.D. (1994) is Research Fellow at the Qumran Institute Groningen. He has published Prophets of Old and the Day of the End. Zechariah, the Book of Watchers and Apocalyptic, and, with Florentino Garcia Martinez The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition.