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Book SynopsisThe eighteen studies in this volume in honor of Moshe Bernstein on the occasion of his 70th birthday mostly engage with Jewish scriptural interpretation, the principal theme of Bernstein’s own research career as expressed in his collected essays, Reading and Re-Reading Scripture at Qumran (Brill, 2013). The essays develop a variety of aspects of scriptural interpretation. Although many of them are chiefly concerned with the Dead Sea Scrolls, the significant contribution of the volume as a whole is the way that even those studies are associated with others that consider the broader context of Jewish scriptural interpretation in late antiquity. As a result, a wider frame of reference for scriptural interpretation impinges upon how scripture was read and re-read in the scrolls from Qumran.
Trade ReviewOverall this is a densely packed and informative volume that displays a consistently high level of research throughout …. A Festschrift of superb quality, in which the resounding praise for Moshe Bernstein’s expertise is echoed throughout. In addition to engaging with Bernstein’s intellectual ideas, the essays forge new ground in the textual development of biblical exegesis that will reap substantial benefits for scholars of early and later rabbinic Judaism. Sandra Jacobs, Review of Biblical Literature, 2019 This volume illustrates once again the significance of the Scrolls, not only for understanding Jewish exegesis in Second Temple Judaism, but also for the trajectories of interpretation which flow from this era. Dwight D. Swanson, SOTS Book List, 2019
Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations Bibliography of the Writings of Moshe J. Bernstein Compiled by Binyamin Goldstein List of Contributors Introduction Binyamin Goldstein, Michael Segal, and George J. Brooke Writing a Descriptive Grammar of 4Q252: The Noun Phrase Martin G. Abegg, Jr. A Newly Discovered Interpretation of Isaiah 40:12–13 in the Songs of the Sage Joseph L. Angel Missing and Misplaced? Omission and Transposition in the Book of Jubilees Abraham J. Berkovitz Hot at Qumran, Cold in Jerusalem: A Reconsideration of Some Late Second Temple Period Attitudes to the Scriptures and their Interpretation George J. Brooke The Interpretation on Ezekiel in the Hodayot Devorah Dimant The Quantification of Religious Obligation in Second Temple Judaism—And Beyond Yaakov Elman and Mahnaz Moazami Temple Scroll as Rewritten Bible: When Genres Bend Steven Fraade Hellenism and Hermeneutics: Did the Qumranites and Sadducees Use Qal Va-ḥomer Arguments? Richard Hidary The Puzzle of Torah and the Qumran Wisdom Texts John I. Kampen An Interpretative Reading in the Isaiah Scroll of Rabbi Meir Armin Lange “Wisdom Motifs” in the Compositional Strategy of the Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) and Other Aramaic Texts from Qumran Daniel Machiela On the Paucity of Biblical Exemplars in Sectarian Texts Tzvi Novick The Mikhbar in the Temple Scroll Lawrence H. Schiffman Harmonization and Rewriting of Daniel 6 from the Bible to Qumran Michael Segal The Textual Base of the Biblical Quotations in Second Temple Compositions Emanuel Tov From Genesis to Exodus in the Book of Jubilees James VanderKam Deuteronomy in the Temple Scroll and its Use in the Textual Criticism of Deuteronomy Sidnie White Crawford Exegesis, Ideology, and Literary History in the Temple Scroll: The Case of the Temple Plan Molly Zahn The Neglected Oaths Passage (CD IX:8–12): The Elusive, Allusive Meaning Shlomo Zuckier Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors
