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Holy Scripture in the Qumran commentaries and Pauline letters
What was the ancient exegetes' attitude to the biblical texts? Did they consider them 'sacred' in the sense that the words were the inviolable utterances of God? Or did they when necessary modify and adapt holy writ for their own purposes? This book examines the question of exegetical modifications from the post-Qumran perspective of textual pluriformity of literalism that runs through ancient exegeses and translations.
Part I. Prolegomena -- 1. Holy Scripture and Post-Biblical Exegeses -- 2. Post-Qumran Perspectives on Exegesis -- Part II. Aspects of Ancient Bible Interpretation -- 3. Wording of the Biblical Text -- 4. Features of Literalism -- Part III. Pesherite Exegesis and Hermeneutics -- 5. did the Pesherists alter their Biblical Quotations? -- 6. Modifying the Biblical Text -- 7. Nature of Pesherite Interpretation -- Part IV. Pauline Interpretation of the Bible -- 8. Paul and Midrash Pesher -- 9. Paul and his Old Testament Quotations -- 10. Paul as Exegete -- Part V. Summary -- 11. Attitudes to Holy Scripture.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997