TY - BOOK AU - McComiskey,Bruce TI - Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Purity, Covenant, and Strategy at Qumran SN - 9780271090528 AV - BM487 .R448 2021 KW - Dead Sea scrolls KW - Rhetoric KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism KW - Essenes KW - Qumran community KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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); 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2924194&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -