Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls : Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran /

McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls : Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran / Bruce McComiskey. - 1 online resource (242 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṣat Ma.Aaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT) -- Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab).

"Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"--



9780271090528 9780271090504


Dead Sea scrolls.


Rhetoric--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Essenes.
Qumran community.


Electronic Books.

BM487 / .R448 2021