Challenges to conventional opinions on Qumran and Enoch issues /

Challenges to conventional opinions on Qumran and Enoch issues /

Some literary expressions in the Dead Sea Scrolls led scholars to allege that their authors professed a dualistic and deterministic worldview of Zoroastrian origin and that the omission of Moses and Sinai from the Enoch writings evinces that a segment in Jewish society marginalized the Torah, adopti...

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Main Author: Heger, Paul, 1924-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 100.
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Online, ISBN: 9789004378346.

Subjects:

Bible. > O.T. > Hermeneutics > Comparative studies.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Ethiopic book of Enoch.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Dualism (Religion) > Judaism.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings.

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Call Number: BS476 .H395 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Rabbinic and Qumran Interpretation Systems
  • 3.The Attribution ofModern Concepts to Authors and Readers of Ancient Texts
  • 4. Enoch: Complementary or Alternative toMosaic Torah?
  • 5. Jubilees and theMosaic Torah
  • 6. Another Look at Dualism in QumranWritings
  • 7. Against aTheory of Dual Determinism in 1QS and 1QHa
  • 8. Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Citations
  • Index of Subjects.