Attitudes to Gentiles in the Minor Prophets and in Corresponding Pesharim.
This essay surveys the attitudes towards gentiles/foreign nations in constructions of the "other" in the Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and examines how the biblical trajectories are continued and reshaped in the corresponding pesharim from Qumran. The development of the biblical texts is exami...
| Publicado en: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 472 - 510 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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