Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls : Essays in Method.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Previous Publications -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Qumran Scrolls and the Demise of the Distinction between Higher and Lower Criticism -- The Formation and Renewal of Scriptural Tradition -- Justifying Deviance: The Place of Scripture in Converting to the Qumran Self-Understanding -- Memory, Cultural Memory, and Rewriting Scripture -- Hypertextuality and the "Parabiblical" Dead Sea Scrolls -- Controlling Intertexts and Hierarchies of Echo in Two Thematic Eschatological Commentaries from Qumran -- Pešer and Midraš in Qumran Literature: Issues for Lexicography -- Genre Theory, Rewritten Bible, and Pesher -- Room for Interpretation: An Analysis of Spatial Imagery in the Qumran Pesharim -- The Silent God, the Abused Mother, and the Self-Justifying Sons: A Psychodynamic Reading of Scriptural Exegesis in the Pesharim -- Types of Historiography in the Qumran Scrolls -- What Makes a Text Historical? Assumptions behind the Classification of Some Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament Theology -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors.

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