By Armin Lange (Editor) Kristin De Troyer (Editor)
How did old scribes interpret their very own fact via scriptural exegesis? The essays during this quantity discover this query from quite a few prespectives via analyzing the earliest recognized exegetical texts of Jewish foundation, specifically, the exegetical texts from the Qumran library. students have debated the correct nature of the exegetical thoughts utilized in the Qumran texts. To convey readability to the dialogue, this ebook analyzes the phenomenon of studying the current within the Qumran library and asks how a ways similar phenomena should be saw in authoritative literature in historic Israel and Judah, within the textual culture of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, in historic Judaism, and in early Christian literature.
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35- 36 READING THE PRESENT IN THE QUMRAN LIBRARY that the words of the Hebrew biblical prophets were of direct relevance to the period of the exegete. This paper seeks to call attention to some examples in the Dead Sea Scrolls of a similar phenomenon in legal, halakic exegesis. We have in mind the transference of material from its original scriptural relevance to a new, present Second Temple period context. In these cases, the original historical context of the legislation gives way to a reality that is thrust upon it by the historical circumstances and the reigning interpretation.
13:2 (13c). Such a marriage is recorded in Josephus, Ant. 6 (§186). 19 This system of supplementing the written Torah allowed for derivation of divinely inspired biblical legal interpretations. A few passages in the scrolls indicate that these legal interpretations were considered to be `et va-`et or `et ba-`et, “for each time” (CD 12:21, 1QS 9:13) or le-fi ha-`ittim, “for the (specific) times” (1QS 9:13) This indicates a realization that the law develops and changes through this interpretive technique.
New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994), 340, stresses how much the citations actually determine the way the commentary runs. Scripture, citations and allusions, 34 READING THE PRESENT IN THE QUMRAN LIBRARY Nahum (4QpNah) includes explicit historical names (I,2–3)—and even here the names are used to define a period of time in which Jerusalem was not occupied by foreign powers, rather than showing specific interest in these individuals. 40 By reading their present in the light of the Scriptures, the pesher authors contributed to constructing the identity of the community.