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Rhetoric and the Dead Sea scrolls : purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran / Bruce McComiskey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271090528
  • 0271090529
  • 9780271090504
  • 0271090502
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/55 23
LOC classification:
  • BM487 .M343 2021eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT) -- Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab).
Summary: "Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"-- Provided by publisher
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2924194

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT) -- Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab).

"Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"-- Provided by publisher

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).