Reading and re-reading scripture at Qumran / by Moshe J. Bernstein.

• Author: Bernstein, Moshe J.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 107; Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 107.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (773 p.)
• Notes: "These volumes contain thirty essays, written over the last thirty-three years (with the very large majority over the last two decades), focusing on or touching upon a variety of the ways that Scripture (what became what we have come to call the Hebrew Bible or TeNaKh) was read, interpreted, and employed at Qumran. All have been published before, including one essay that appeared in Hebrew originally and makes its first appearance here in English ... They have been edited only lightly"--Volume 1, page xii.

In Reading and Re-reading Scripture at Qumran , Moshe J. Bernstein gathers more than three decades of his work on diverse aspects of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays range from broad surveys of the genres of biblical interpretation in these texts to more narrowly focused s...