Pesharim
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2002
118 pages
978-0-567-58692-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 discusses the textual characteristics of the quoted bible verses, the literary genre and its relationship with rabbinic midrash, the characteristics of sectarian exegesis, the nature of the historical allusions, and the common features, whether real or imagined, with the New Testament. Taking account of all relevant and recently published texts and with an annotated bibliography, this is an authoritative guide for the student or non-specialist scholar.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-58692-6 (9780567586926)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
Dr. Timothy Lim is Reader in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Content
1. Introduction
2. The Continuous Pesharim
3. The Genre of Pesher: Definition and Categorization
4. Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim
5. History in the Pesharim
6. Pesher and the New Testament
2. The Continuous Pesharim
3. The Genre of Pesher: Definition and Categorization
4. Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim
5. History in the Pesharim
6. Pesher and the New Testament
