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Book SynopsisThis volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible. Most of the text critical studies deal with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including sectarian as well as canonical texts. Two essays shed light on the formation of authoritative literature. Scribal practice is illustrated in various ways, again mostly from the Dead Sea Scrolls. One essay deals with diachronic change in Qumran Hebrew. Rounding out the volume are two thematic studies, a wide-ranging study of the “ambiguous oracle” of Josephus, which he identifies as Balaam’s oracle, and a review of the use of female metaphors for Wisdom.
Trade ReviewThis memorial volume does justice to the memory of Peter Flint as an accomplished Qumran scholar, and the volume provides non-Qumran specialists a thoughtful and wideranging survey of the lay of the research landscape related to Dead Sea Scroll studies and enough minutiae to titillate the palate of the specialists. The editors and publisher deserve praise for a well-presented manuscript that can seriously be considered for both private and library bookshelves. Hendrik Bosman, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, 2020 This is a fascinating assembly of detailed studies, intersecting throughout with Flint’s own interests and engaging repeatedly with his work. Taken together with the 2017 collection, these two memorial volumes form a worthy tribute to the man himself. Matthew A. Collins, SOTS Review
Table of ContentsPreface Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Peter Flint in Memoriam Ananda Geyser-Fouché and John J. Collins PART 1: Text and Canon 1 Qumran Evidence for the Text and Canon of the Bible Eugene C. Ulrich Part 2: Text-Critical Studies 2 Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls: What Not to Expect of the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab) Gert T. M. Prinsloo 3 4QLXXNum and a Text-Critical Examination of a Debated Hebrew Term in Numbers 4 Gideon R. Kotzé 4 The Ezekiel Manuscripts from the Dead Sea, the Ancient Versions, and the Textual History of Ezekiel Herrie van Rooy 5 On “True” Editions: Pluriformity and Authority between Psalms and Serekh James Nati 6 A Textual Analysis of Pseudo-Ezekiel (4Q385 and 4Q386): Rewritten or Merely Copies of Each Other Jana Coetzee 7 Nebuchadnezzar Found and Forgotten: a New Fragment of 4Q385a (4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Ca) 18 i Eibert Tigchelaar Part 3: Canon and Authority 8 Uses of Earlier Literature in Some Second Temple Texts James C. VanderKam 9 An Examination of the Songs of Ascents and Psalm 119 in 11QPsa Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford Part 4: Scribal Practice 10 Qumran Scribal Practice: Won Moor Thyme Martin Abegg 11 The Grain of the Kittim in the Habakkuk Pesher: a New Reading of ורב ולכאמו (1QpHab 6:5) Timothy H. Lim 12 The Vistas of Variant Readings: Towards an Understanding of Scribal Transmission as Reception in the Qumran Fragments of Aramaic Daniel Andrew B. Perrin 13 Exegesis of the Bible Enriched by the Dead Sea Scrolls Emanuel Tov 14 The Excerpted Manuscripts from Qumran, with Special Attention to 4QReworked Pentateuch D and 4QReworked Pentateuch E Sidnie White Crawford Part 5: Language 15 Trajectories of Diachronic Change in Qumran Hebrew: Evidence from the Negative Existential in Post-Predicate Position Jacobus A. Naudé, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, and Daniel J. Wilson Part 6: Thematic Studies 16 The Star of Balaam and the Prophecy of Josephus concerning Vespasian Craig A. Evans 17 Lady Metaphors in Judaic Wisdom Literature Ananda Geyser-Fouché Index
