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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has
revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew
Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular
literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran
texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for
the first time a large sample of such compositions in their
original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible
texts do not use the particular style and nomenclature specific to
the literature produced by the Qumran community. Many of these
texts are unknown from any other sources, and have been published
only during the last two decades. They therefore became the object
of intense scholarly study. However, most the attention has been
directed to the longer specimens, such as the Hebrew Book of
Jubilees and the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon. The present volume
addresses the less known and poorly studied pieces, a group of
eleven small Hebrew texts that rework the Hebrew Bible. It provides
fresh editions, translations and detailed commentaries for each
one. The volume thus places these texts within the larger context
of the Qumran library, aiming at completing the data about the
rewritten Bible.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls more than sixty years ago has
revealed a wealth of literary compositions which rework the Hebrew
Bible in various ways. This genre seems to have been a popular
literary form in ancient Judaism literature. However, the Qumran
texts of this type are particularly interesting for they offer for
the first time a large sample of such compositions in their
original languages, Hebrew and Aramaic. Since the rewritten Bible
texts do not use the particular style and nomenclature specific to
the literature produced by the Qumran community. Many of these
texts are unknown from any other sources, and have been published
only during the last two decades. They therefore became the object
of intense scholarly study. However, most the attention has been
directed to the longer specimens, such as the Hebrew Book of
Jubilees and the Aramaic Genesis Apocryphon. The present volume
addresses the less known and poorly studied pieces, a group of
eleven small Hebrew texts that rework the Hebrew Bible. It provides
fresh editions, translations and detailed commentaries for each
one. The volume thus places these texts within the larger context
of the Qumran library, aiming at completing the data about the
rewritten Bible.
The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific
theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely
the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the
links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the
inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew
scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical
interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of
Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources;
Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the
lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant
examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer
explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar
Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob's career; Harald Samuel review the
career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions
of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic
aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides
an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran
scrolls.
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