Reading for history in the Damascus document : a methodological study /

Scholars tend to view the Damascus Document as a historical source, but a reading of the text in light of contemporary (audience-oriented) literary criticism finds its emphasis in the ideological construction of history and communal identity, rather than in the preservation of a historical record. A...

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Main Author: Grossman, Maxine L.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 45.
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Online, ISBN: 9789004378346.

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Damascus document.

586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism > History > Historiography. > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

History.