The Dead Sea Scrolls and the history of the jewish book
The complicated process whereby the biblical books took shape and were copied and transmitted in biblical times can only be partly reconstructed based on biblical evidence, with the help of ancient Near Eastern parallels. Clearly, the biblical era constitutes the first stage in the history of the Je...
| Subtitles: | Symposium: The Jewish Book |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2010]
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| In: |
AJS review
Year: 2010, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 359-365 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Book
/ Bible
/ Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Rabbinic literature
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Library collections
B Dead Sea Scrolls B Judaism B Scrolls B Sectarianism B Jewish History B Classical literature B Temples |
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| Summary: | The complicated process whereby the biblical books took shape and were copied and transmitted in biblical times can only be partly reconstructed based on biblical evidence, with the help of ancient Near Eastern parallels. Clearly, the biblical era constitutes the first stage in the history of the Jewish book, or more correctly, the Jewish book par excellence. However, for the period immediately following, the Second Temple period, the level of documentation for creating, editing/redacting, and copying and disseminating Jewish books is now enormous due to the discovery, publication, and analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While this information relates directly to the period in which the Scrolls were copied, from the last part of the third century bce through the early first century ce, it also allows us a model with which to supplement our understanding of the biblical period, and much of it is directly relevant to the rabbinic period in which most of the same scribal conventions were in use. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009410000383 |