TY - BOOK AU - Brooke,George J. AU - LaCoste,Nathalie TI - Reading the Dead Sea scrolls: essays in method T2 - Early Judaism and its literature SN - 9781589839021 (electronic bk.) AV - BM487 .B76 2013eb U1 - 296.1/55 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - RELIGION / Judaism / General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-266) and indexes; The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism --; The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition --; Justifying deviance : the place of scripture in converting to the Qumran self-understanding --; Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture --; Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls --; Controlling intertexts and hierarchies of echo in two thematic eschatological commentaries from Qumran --; Pešer and midraš in Qumran literature : issues for lexicography --; Genre theory, rewritten Bible, and Pesher --; Room for interpretation : an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim --; The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of scriptural exegesis in the pesharim --; Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls --; What makes a text historical? : assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls --; The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=651818 ER -