The War Scroll, Violence, War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature

Essays in Honour of Martin G. Abegg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-27114-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 115, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 933 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

This volume is a collection of essays written in honour of Martin G. Abegg from a range of contributors with expertise in Second Temple Jewish literature in reflection upon Prof. Abegg’s work. These essays are arranged according to four topics that deal with various aspects of text, language and interpretation of the Qumran War Scroll, and concepts of war and peace in Second Temple Jewish literature.

The contents of the volume are divided into the following four main sections: (1) The War Scroll, (2) War and Peace in the Hebrew Scriptures, (3) War and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and (4) War and Peace in early Jewish and Christian texts and interpretation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Kipp

Baek, Kyung S

Flint, Peter W

Peters, Dorothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dorothy M. Peters, Introduction

Emanuel Tov, From Concordance to Concordance: Martin G. Abegg’s Work on Computerizing and Concordancing the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jason Kalman, From “The War Scroll” to A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls

THE WAR SCROLL

George J. Brooke, Text, Timing and Terror: Thematic Thoughts on the War Scroll in Conversation with the Writings of Martin G. Abegg, jr.
Robert D. Holmstedt and John Screnock, Writing a Descriptive Grammar of the Syntax and Semantics of the War Scroll: The Noun Phrase as Proof of Concept
Anthony R. Meyer, The “Mysteries of God” in the Qumran War Scroll
Kipp Davis, “There and Back Again”: Reconstruction and Reconciliation of the War Texts of 4QMilhamaa (4Q246a–c)
Dongshin Dohnson Chang, Priestly Covenants in 1QM and 1QSb
Robert Kugler, The War Rule Texts and a New Theory of the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Brief Thought Experiment

WAR AND PEACE IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

Alex Jassen, Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll
Brian Schultz, The Naval Battle in the Qumran War Texts
John Kampen, Wisdom, Poverty, and Non-Violence in Instruction
Dorothy M. Peters and Esther Eshel, Cutting Off Shechem: Levi and His Sword in the Rylands Genizah Fragment of the Aramaic Levi Document
James E. Bowley, Prophecy, False Prophecy, and War in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Daniel K. Falk, Prayer, Liturgy and War
Ian Werrett in collaboration with Stephen Parker, Purity in War: What is it Good for?

WAR AND PEACE IN EARLY JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN TEXT AND INTERPRETATION

Torleif Elgvin, Violence, Apologetics, and Resistance: Hasmonaean Ideology and Yahad Texts in Dialogue
Craig A. Evans, Jesus, Satan and Holy War in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Kyung S. Baek, The Sword-in-the-Mouth of Jesus the King: Declarations of War and Peace in the Gospel of Matthew
Michael O. Wise, Papyrus Hever 30 and the Bar Kokhba Revolt
Steve Delamarter, The Cave 11 Psalm Scroll (11Q5) and the Textual History of Ethiopic Psalm 151: Memory and Interpretation of David as Anointed Warrior

Über Autor(innen)

Kipp Davis, Ph.D. (2009), Manchester, is a scholar of early Jewish manuscripts and texts at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. His most recent monograph is The Cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah C and the Qumran Jeremianic Traditions (Brill, 2014).
Kyung S. Baek, Ph.D. (cand.), Manchester, has research interests in early Jewish and Christian texts and interpretations, Christian Origins, and Second Temple Judaism. His most recent publication is Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection (SBL, 2011).
Peter W. Flint, Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies, Trinity Western University, is the editor of over twenty-five Dead Sea Scrolls, most recently, Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls (Oxford, 2010).
Dorothy M. Peters, Ph.D. is Adjunct Faculty at Trinity Western University and author of Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity (SBLEJL, 2008).