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Author: Jonas C. Greenfield
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9047405072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.
Author: Edward M. Cook
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1575067196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Aramaic texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important discoveries for the history of Aramaic and for the background of early Judaism and Christianity. They constitute a “missing link” between Biblical Aramaic and the later Aramaic of the targums and midrashic literature. Among them are the oldest texts we have of the Book of Enoch and Tobit, as well as the earliest Aramaic translation of a portion of Scripture, the Targum of Job. Other previously unknown texts such as the Genesis Apocryphon and the Aramaic Levi Document have opened up many new avenues of research on the literature of early Judaism, and the dialect itself is chronologically the one nearest to the origins of Christianity. Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive dictionary of all the Aramaic texts from the 11 Qumran caves, from a noted specialist in Qumran Aramaic. It is the first dictionary in any language devoted solely to this important Aramaic corpus and contains a wealth of detail, including definitions, extensive citations of the sources, discussions of difficult passages, revised readings, and a bibliography. It will be an indispensable resource to anyone interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the literature of early Judaism and Christianity, and the Aramaic language.
Author: Jonas Carl Greenfield
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2000-03-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780802846501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally written to appeal to both scholars and general readers interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls, all of the articles in this volume have been updated to take into account current discussions of this extraordinary archaeological find."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: William Loader
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2007-06-15
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0802825834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality marks a first stage in William Loader's research on attitudes toward sexuality in Judaism and Christianity of the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era. Loader first discusses the early Enoch literature relevant to the theme, focusing on the impact of an ancient myth on the writings and examining how sexual deeds are not here concerned with sexual wrongdoing. He then examines the weight of such wrongdoing in the priestly instruction of the fragmentary Aramaic Levi Document as a whole. He finally considers Jubilees as a cumulative work, building on both the Enoch tradition and the instruction of Levi, and reveals a range of devices warning against sexual depravity. Loader's aim throughout is to interpret the works from within, examining literary form, context, sequence, and tradition and redaction, reflecting engagement with current research in this area.
Author: Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 052111943X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.
Author: James L. Kugel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-03-02
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9004221107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first part of this book is an extensive verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Jubilees. Kugel's stated aim is "to understand what the text is saying and why it is saying it," and in particular to explore the numerous bits of biblical interpretation found in Jubilees and their connection to other exegetical writings of the Second Temple period. Subsequent chapters focus on the possibility that Jubilees had more than one author, as well as on the book’s specific relationship to four other Second Temple texts: the Genesis Apocryphon, the Aramaic Levi Document, 4Q225 Pseudo-Jubilees, and the writings of Philo of Alexandria.
Author: Dorothy M. Peters
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1589833902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a problematic ancestor for some Jews in the Second Temple period. His archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls, differently nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for groups that were struggling to understand both their distinctive self-identities within Judaism and their relationship to the nations among whom they lived. Dually located within a trajectory of early Christian and rabbinic interpretation of Noah and within the Jewish Hellenistic milieu of the Second Temple period, this study of the Noah traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls illuminates living conversations and controversies among the people who transmitted them and promises to have implications for ancient questions and debates that extended considerably beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Author: Robert R. Duke
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781433107894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles.
Author: William Loader
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2009-08-05
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0802863914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Loader here investigates the Dead Sea Scrolls, mining every document of potential relevance for understanding ancient attitudes towards sexuality, aside from the biblical writings and there are many such documents. They include the Temple Scroll, 4QMMT, the Damascus Document, and a number of legal, liturgical, wisdom, and exegetical documents. These texts treat a wide range of matters pertaining to sexuality, from ritual and cultic concerns to visions of human community and family in future expectation. Far from the common view that the writers of the Scrolls held a low view of sexuality and marriage, Loader concludes that most of these sources reflect an affirmative stance towards sex and marriage within a framework of clear boundaries marking out where sex did and did not belong. / The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality offers the first comprehensive treatment of this subject and comprises both detailed exegetical discussion of each work and a synthetic analysis of themes. The attention to detail displayed and the helpful summaries included make this book an indispensable resource for both scholar and general reader.
