By Sidnie White Crawford
The biblical manuscripts discovered at Qumran, contends Sidnie White Crawford, replicate a spectrum of textual content flow from authoritative scriptural traditions to fully new compositions. Treating six significant teams of texts, she exhibits how changes within the texts consequence from a specific knowing of the paintings of the scribe -- no longer in simple terms to repeat but in addition to interpret, replace, and make suitable the Scripture for the modern Jewish neighborhood of the time. Thisáscribal perform ended in texts that have been "rewritten" or "reworked" and thought of no less significant or exact than the originals.
Propounding a brand new idea of ways those texts cohere as a bunch, Crawford bargains an unique and provocative paintings for readers attracted to the second one Temple period.
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