Genre Theory, Rewritten Bible and Pesher.
This article considers how the wide range of compositions from the Second Temple period that represent or depend implicitly or explicitly on some form of authoritative Jewish scripture should be suitably described and categorized. Three broad sets of issues are addressed. The first concerns how the...
| Published in: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 361 - 387 |
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