Pesharim.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Editions, Translations and Bibliographies -- 1. Introduction -- 1. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran Scrolls -- 2. The Essenes and the Qumran Community -- 3. The Study of the Scrolls and Confessionalism -- 4. A Community of Study -- 5. The Pesharim -- 6. Types of Pesharim -- 7. Pesherite Biblical Quotations -- 8. Editing Scrolls -- 9. Dating the Pesharim -- 10. Bibliographical Note -- 2. The Continuous Pesharim -- 1. Diversity of Exegeses in the Pesharim -- 2. Common and Distinctive Features -- 3. The Genre of Pesher: Definition and Categorization -- 1. The Thematic Pesharim -- 2. Midrash -- 3. Midrash Eschatology -- 4. Pesher as a Distinct Genre -- 4. Biblical Quotations in the Pesharim -- 1. On Identifying Exegetical Variants -- 2. Textual Nature of Biblical Quotations Found in the Pesharim -- 5. History in the Pesharim -- 1. Sobriquets and Titles -- 2. 1Q Hodayot as a Source for the Pesharim -- 3. Imitating the Prophetic Style -- 6. Pesher and the New Testament -- 1. Common Sectarian Matrix -- Bibliography -- Index of References -- Index of Authors -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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