Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls Essays in Method (Early Judaism and Its Literature) (Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaism and Its Literature) by GeorgeJ. Brooke, Nathalie Lacoste Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2013 by Society Of Biblical Literature ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-901-4, ISBN: 1-58983-901-3
""Details how the scrolls, one of history's great language troves, depict the tumultuous Judean world of 2,000 years ago."―Natural History Ever since the first scrolls were found in the Judaean desert in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of passionate speculation and controversy. The possibility that they might challenge assumptions about ancient Judaism and the origins of Christianity, coupled with the extremely limited a ..."
Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement) by George John Brooke Hardcover, 332 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-850918-9, ISBN: 0-19-850918-9
"This volume is a rich and varied collection of studies by major experts in the field of Jewish biblical interpretation. In exemplary studies covering classical, medieval and modern uses of the Bible, the authors address the issues of Jewish attitudes to, and use of, the Bible through the centuries."
Birth of Jesus(1st Edition) Biblical and Theological Reflections by GeorgeJ. Brooke, Birth Of Jesus- Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2000 by Bloomsbury T&T Clark ISBN-13: 978-0-567-08756-0, ISBN: 0-567-08756-5
"... for surely Paul would not have oriented the calendar from the birth of a historic
personage, as it were, but from the rebirth of all creation in Christ's dying and
rising again. This is an intriguing possibility to contemplate, not least in respect to
the question of how well Paul's perspective will seem to us to have worn, after
two thousand years, in that imagined parallel universe. Suggested further
reading VICTOR PAUL FURNI ..."
"Brooke illuminates the first-century world shared by the Qumran community and the writers of the New Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided Old Testament scholars with an enormous wealth of data for textual criticism as well as theology. But, as Brooke skillfully demonstrates, New Testament scholars can use the Scrolls to learn more about the linguistic, historical, religious, and social contexts of Palestine in the fir ..."
"This is a compilation of over 3500 biblical references, drawn from nine different
translations, and arranged under 285 ... came from the Prayer Book version of Ps.
107.18), sometimes misplaced ('the patience of Job' is taken from Jas 5.1 1, ... the
Lord' into someone is a way of expressing the superlative which has little to do
with instilling reverence for God). ... M. wants biblical scholars to think of the red
plush of the cinem ..."
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Exegesis at Qumran 4qflorilegium in Its Jewish Context by GeorgeJ. Brooke Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 1985 by Society Of Biblical Literature ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-237-4, ISBN: 1-58983-237-X
Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls Essays in Method (Early Judaism and Its Literature) (Society of Biblical Literature (Numbered)) by GeorgeJ. Brooke, Nathalie Lacoste Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2013 by Society Of Biblical Literature ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-903-8, ISBN: 1-58983-903-X
"The Book List provides short reviews of up to 500 books a year. It includes publications not only on the Old Testament directly but also on many related areas, including archaeology, epigraphy, Hebrew and related Semitic languages (especially Northwest Semitic), relevant ancient Near Eastern history and literature, the Hellenistic world, early Judaism, and social anthropology. The main value of the Book List is its comprehensiveness and ..."
"High Priest at the start of the Roman period, and the rebirth of the traditional
concept of the Davidic Messiah at about the same time as Jesus. Yet such a
scheme also has many difficulties. It depends largely on the dating of the various
scrolls and upon particular understandings and interpretations of their contents.
For example, Starcky's dating, especially his third period in which he sees one
Messiah and the eschatological pro ..."
"The Scrolls cease to be an isolated corpus of texts and become part of the well-
established, dynamic process of the emergence of the ... Instead, the Scrolls shed
new light on the literary history as well as the historical and sociological
background from which the ... Biblical scholarship and Qumran studies share not
only a historical-critical methodology, but are very much interdependent in the
quest for our understanding the rel ..."
Early Judaism and Its Literature Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls : Essays in Method number 39 by GeorgeJ. Brooke 310 Pages, Published 2013 by Society Of Biblical Lit ISBN-13: 978-1-58983-902-1, ISBN: 1-58983-902-1
"... Primer contained no references to the dead sea scrolls, as if they were
considered unlikely to alter the life of the text critic ... of the canons of text criticism
is a further demonstration, if any was needed, that “Qumran scholarship has
reached only the ... been concerned over several generations with attempting to
establish the original text (“Ur-text”) of each biblical book. ... Both Maas and
Postgate are cited in e. tov, ..."