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This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible. Most of the text critical studies deal with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including sectarian as well as canonical texts. Two essays shed light on the formation of authoritative literature. Scribal practice is illustrated in various ways, again mostly from the Dead Sea Scrolls. One essay deals with diachronic change in Qumran Hebrew. Rounding out the volume are two thematic studies, a wide-ranging study of the “ambiguous oracle” of Josephus, which he identifies as Balaam’s oracle, and a review of the use of female metaphors for Wisdom.
Price: $182.00
Pages: 392
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Publication Date:
25 October 2019
ISBN: 9789004410725
Format: Hardcover
This memorial volume does justice to the memory of Peter Flint as an accomplished Qumran scholar, and the volume provides non-Qumran specialists a thoughtful and wideranging survey of the lay of the research landscape related to Dead Sea Scroll studies and enough minutiae to titillate the palate of the specialists. The editors and publisher deserve praise for a well-presented manuscript that can seriously be considered for both private and library bookshelves.
Hendrik Bosman, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, 2020
This is a fascinating assembly of detailed studies, intersecting throughout with Flint’s own interests and engaging repeatedly with his work. Taken together with the 2017 collection, these two memorial volumes form a worthy tribute to the man himself.
Matthew A. Collins, SOTS Review
Hendrik Bosman, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, 2020
This is a fascinating assembly of detailed studies, intersecting throughout with Flint’s own interests and engaging repeatedly with his work. Taken together with the 2017 collection, these two memorial volumes form a worthy tribute to the man himself.
Matthew A. Collins, SOTS Review
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Biography, and The Invention of Judaism. Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul.
Ananda Geyser-Fouché is Senior Lecturer of Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. She has published peer-reviewed articles in academic renowned journals and was the sub-editor of the bundle in HTS Theological Studies Original Research: Special Collection Qumran Texts, 2016.