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Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls : Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran /

"Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McComiskey, Bruce, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT)
  • Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS)
  • Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD)
  • Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT)
  • Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab).