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Pre-Talmudic Jewish literature (non-Biblical)

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  • Exegetical textsby D.W. Parry; E. Tov

    BRILL 2004; US$ 43.00

    This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...

  • The Dead Sea scrolls reader. Part 1, Texts concerned with religious lawby D.W. Parry; E. Tov

    BRILL 2004; US$ 48.00

    This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...

  • The Dead Sea scrolls reader. Part 4, Calendrical and sapiential textsby D.W. Parry; E. Tov

    BRILL 2004; US$ 46.00

    This work presents all the non-biblical Qumran texts classified according to their genres, together with English translations. more...

  • Reading the Human Bodyby Mladen Popovic

    BRILL 2007; US$ 151.00

    Offering fresh reconstructions and interpretations of physiognomic and astrological texts from Qumran in comparison with Babylonian and Greco-Roman texts, this book gives a fresh view of their sense, function, and status within the Qumran community and Second Temple Judaism. more...

  • Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrollsby Matthew A. Collins

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 140.00

    This book constitutes an examination of key sobriquets found among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. Its primary focus is literary rather than historical and concentrates on the function of the sobriquets as labels utilised positively or negatively within the sectarian compositions. Noting the presence of ‘standard’ and ‘variant’... more...

  • Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desertby Emanuel Tov

    BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00

    The updated inventory list reflects corrections made to details recorded imprecisely in DJD XXXIX, the data published in the last DJD volumes, inscribed archeological evidence, new fragments, changed names, new identifications, etc. Also included is an updated version of the categorized list of biblical texts. more...

  • Flores Florentinoby Anthony Hilhorst; Emile Puech; Eibert Tigchelaar

    BRILL 2007; US$ 265.00

    This volume comprises forty-eight essays, presented by friends, colleagues and students in honour of Florentino García Martínez. The articles are primarily in the field of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but also cover many other fields of Second Temple Judaism, from late biblical texts and Septuagint up to the pseudepigrapha and early rabbinic writings. more...

  • Exegetical Textsby Jonathan G. Campbell

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 120.00

    Jonathan G. Campbell provides an introduction to eight sectarian manuscripts from among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls that can loosely be called the 'Exegetical Texts'. He examines their contents, background, genre, and significance and he provides a history of the relevant research. The Exegetical Texts constitute a particularly diverse strand... more...

  • War Textsby Jean Duhaime

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 120.00

    The War Texts is the name given to a small group of Dead Sea Scrolls that depict the preparation for and the various phases of the eschatological battle between the 'Sons of Light' and the 'Sons of Darkness'. Jean Duhaime briefly surveys the history of these texts from their initial discovery to their official publication. He describes... more...

  • Parabiblical Textsby Daniel K. Falk

    Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 110.00

    This book introduces the reader to a fascinating genre of writings that retell biblical narratives in various ways. They reflect the concerns and methods of early Jewish interpreters of Scripture. Daniel Falk surveys the content and major scholarly issues of three key examples: Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen), Reworked Pentateuch (4Q158, 364-5), and Commentary... more...