An Aramaic Wisdom Text From Qumran

An Aramaic Wisdom Text From Qumran
Author: Henryk Drawnel
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900413753X

This source publication of the Aramaic Levi Document collects all the manuscripts and photographs of this Levitical composition from the Second Temple period. The commentary on the Document deals with its literary characteristics, educational character, and Babylonian origin of Levitical professional education.

An Aramaic Wisdom Text from Qumran

An Aramaic Wisdom Text from Qumran
Author: Henryk Drawnel SDB
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047404998

This source publication of the Aramaic Levi Document collects all the manuscripts and photographs of this Levitical composition from the Second Temple period. The commentary on the Document deals with its literary characteristics, educational character, and Babylonian origin of Levitical professional education.

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran
Author: Mette Bundvad
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004413731

The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran have attracted increasing interest in recent years. These texts predate the “sectarian” Dead Sea scrolls, and they are contemporary with the youngest parts of the Hebrew Bible. They offer a unique glimpse into the situation before the biblical canons were closed. Their highly creative Jewish authors reshaped and rewrote biblical traditions to cope with the concerns of their own time. The essays in this volume examine this fascinating ancient literature from a variety of different perspectives. The book grew out of an international symposium held at the University of Copenhagen in August 2017.

The Aramaic Levi Document

The Aramaic Levi Document
Author: Jonas C. Greenfield
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-10-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047405072

The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran

Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran
Author: Mette Bundvad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN: 9789004413702

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles on the Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls, some of the oldest and most fascinating literary compositions among the ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the Qumran caves.

A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves

A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves
Author: Daniel Machiela
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2022-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004513817

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from the caves of Qumran. These nearly one hundred scrolls open a window onto a vibrant period of Jewish history for which we previously had few historical sources. Scholars and advanced students will find a general introduction to the corpus, detailed, richly-illustrated profiles of individual scrolls, and up-to-date studies of their Aramaic language and scribal practices. The goal of the book is to foster and support further study of these scrolls against the historical backdrop of early Judaism and ancient Mediterranean scribal cultures.

The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Ruth A. Clements
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004384235

The Dead Sea Scrolls offer a window onto the rich theological landscape of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Through careful textual analysis, the authors of these twelve studies explore such topics as dualism and determinism, esoteric knowledge, eschatology and covenant, the nature of heaven and / or the divine, moral agency, and more; as well as connections between concepts expressed in the Qumran corpus and in later Jewish and Christian literature. The religious worldviews reflected in the Scrolls constitute part of the ideological environment of Second Temple Judaism; the analysis of these texts is essential for the reconstruction of that milieu. Taken together, these studies indicate the breadth and depth of theological reflection in the Second Temple period.

4QInstruction

4QInstruction
Author: Matthew J. Goff
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1589837835

The wisdom tradition of ancient Israel, represented in the Hebrew Bible by Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes and in the Apocrypha by Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon, is also well-attested in the texts from Qumran. 4QInstruction (1Q26, 4Q415–418, 4Q423), the largest wisdom text of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is considered a sapiential text primarily because of its explicit and insistent pedagogical nature. To make this significant wisdom text more widely available, this volume offers a critical edition, translation, and commentary on the main fragments of 4QInstruction. It examines particular texts of 4QInstruction as well as broader issues, including its date, genre, main themes, and place in Second Temple Judaism. Finally, in order to contextualize this pivotal work, 4QInstruction’s relationship to the sapiential and apocalyptic traditions is also explored.

Aramaica Qumranica

Aramaica Qumranica
Author: Katell Berthelot
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2010-11-11
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9004187863

The articles in this book tackle important linguistic, exegetical and historical questions concerning the Aramaic scrolls from Qumran, addressing for instance the issue of their relevance to the development of apocalypticism and messianism in the Jewish tradition.

Discerning Wisdom

Discerning Wisdom
Author: Matthew J. Goff
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004147497

"Discerning Wisdom" provides an overview of all the Qumran wisdom texts. The Dead Sea Scrolls offer crucial evidence for understanding the wisdom of the late Second Temple period and the reception of traditional wisdom in Early Judaism.