TY - MANSCPT AU - Brooke,George J. TI - Reading the Dead Sea scrolls: essays in method SN - 9781589839014 AV - BM487 .B76 2013 U1 - 296.1/55 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Atlanta PB - Society of Biblical Literature KW - Dead Sea scrolls N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Qumran scrolls and the demise of the distinction between higher and lower criticism -- The formation and renewal of scriptural tradition -- Justifying deviance: the place of scripture in converting to a Qumran self-understanding -- Memory, cultural memory, and rewriting scripture -- Hypertextuality and the "parabiblical" Dead Sea scrolls -- Controlling Intertexts and Hierarchies of Echo in two thematic eschatalogical commentaries from Qumran -- Pesher and midras in Qumran literature: issues for lexicography -- Genre theory, rewritten Bible and Pesher -- Room for interpretation: an analysis of spatial imagery in the Qumran pesharim -- The silent God, the abused mother, and the self-justifying sons: a psychodynamic reading of the Qumran scrolls -- The silent God, aboused mother, and the self-justifying sons : a psychodynamic reading of Scriptural exegesis in the Pesharim -- Types of historiography in the Qumran scrolls -- What makes a text historical? assumptions behind the classification of some Dead Sea scrolls -- The scrolls from Qumran and Old Testament theology ER -