TY - BOOK AU - McComiskey,Bruce TI - Rhetoric and the Dead Sea scrolls: purity, covenant, and strategy at Qumran SN - 9780271090528 AV - BM487 .M343 2021eb U1 - 296.1/55 23 PY - 2021///] CY - University Park, PA PB - Penn State University Press KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - fast KW - Rhetoric KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Essenes KW - Qumran community KW - Rhétorique KW - Aspect religieux KW - Judaïsme KW - Esséniens KW - Communauté de Qumrān KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - bisacsh KW - e-books KW - aat KW - Livres numériques KW - rvmgf N1 - 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) N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2924194 ER -