Scribes, Scrolls, and Scripture
Title | Scribes, Scrolls, and Scripture PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Harold Greenlee |
Publisher | William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert
Title | Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Emanuel Tov |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 443 |
Release | 2018-10-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047414349 |
This handbook describes the scribal features of the Dead Sea Scrolls written in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. The findings have major implications for the study of the scrolls and the understanding of their relationship to scribal traditions in Israel and elsewhere.
Writing the Bible
Title | Writing the Bible PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Römer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1315487209 |
For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East, classical Greece and the Greco-Roman world. In many ways, however, the production of the Jewish literary canon, while reflecting wider practice, constitutes an exception because of its religious function as the written "word of God", leading in turn to the veneration of scrolls as sacred and even cultic objects in themselves. "Writing the Bible" brings together the wide-ranging study of all major aspects of ancient writing and writers. The essays cover the dissemination of texts, book and canon formation, and the social and political effects of writing and of textual knowledge. Central issues discussed include the status of the scribe, the nature of 'authorship', the relationship between copying and redacting, and the relative status of oral and written knowledge. The writers examined include Ilimilku of Ugarit, the scribes of ancient Greece, Ben Sira, Galen, Origen and the author of Pseudo-Clement.
Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran
Title | Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran PDF eBook |
Author | Sidnie White Crawford |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2019-07-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1467456586 |
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford combines the conclusions of the first generation of scrolls scholars that have withstood the test of time, new insights that have emerged since the complete publication of the scrolls corpus, and the much more complete archaeological picture that we now have of Khirbet Qumran. She creates a new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves.
The Temple Scroll
Title | The Temple Scroll PDF eBook |
Author | Johann Maier |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 1987-03-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 056722015X |
The introduction, translation and commentary on the Temple Scroll by Johann Maier has been thoroughly revised and updated by the author for its English edition, taking account of improvements in readings, and, among other recent secondary literature, the English translation of Yadin's edition, to which cross-references are given. Students of Second Temple Judaism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls in particular, will at last have a convenient English edition of this most important document from Qumran.
Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times
Title | Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times PDF eBook |
Author | Sidnie White Crawford |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2008-04-14 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802847404 |
Meeting a need for quality English-language resources on the Dead Sea Scrolls, this series makes available to readers at all levels the best of current Dead Sea Scrolls research, showing how the Scrolls impact our understanding of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity.
Scribes and Their Remains
Title | Scribes and Their Remains PDF eBook |
Author | Craig A. Evans |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2019-09-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567688054 |
Scribes and Their Remains begins with an introductory essay by Stanley Porter which addresses the principal theme of the book: the text as artifact. The rest of the volume is then split into two major sections. In the first, five studies appear on the theme of 'Scribes, Letters, and Literacy.' In the first of these Craig A. Evans offers a lengthy piece that argues that the archaeological, artifactual, and historical evidence suggests that New Testament autographs and first copies may well have remained in circulation for one century or more, having the effect of stabilizing the text. Other pieces in the section address literacy, orality and paleography of early Christian papyri. In the second section there are five pieces on 'Writing, Reading, and Abbreviating Christian Scripture.' These range across numerous topics, including an examination of the stauros (cross) as a nomen sacrum.