Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004677135
Series Statement:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive pre-2000
Content:
The Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran provide the oldest, best, and most direct witness we have to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. Prior to the discovery of the Scrolls, scholars had textual evidence for only a single, late period in the history of the biblical text, leading them to believe that the text was uniform. The Scrolls, however, provide documentary evidence a thousand years older than all previously known Hebrew manuscripts and reveal a period of pluriformity in the biblical text prior to the stage of the uniformity. In this important collection of studies, copublished by Eerdmans and Brill, one of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls outlines a comprehensive theory that reconstructs the complex development of the ancient texts that eventually came to form the Old Testament. Eugene Ulrich, who has examined all the texts closely, is the pioneer of the "multiple literary editions" theory that is replacing older views of the origins of the Bible. His work in this volume represents the leading edge of research in the exciting field of Scrolls studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004114937
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible : Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature Leiden : Brill, 1999 ISBN 9789004114937
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004677135
