Strangers to the “Biblical Scrolls”: Balaam’s Fourth Oracle (Num 24:15–19) and its Links to Other Unique Excerpted Texts

In: Is There a Text in this Cave? Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke
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Helen R. Jacobus
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226–257
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004344532_014

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Series:  Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 119
Cover Is There a Text in this Cave? Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke
E-Book ISBN:
9789004344532
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2017
Preliminary Material
Introduction
Are There Sacred Texts in Qumran? The Concept of Sacred Text in Light of the Qumran Collection
Textual Authority and the Problem of the Biblical Canon at Qumran
Reflections on Literacy, Textuality, and Community in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls
Scribal Bodies as Liturgical Bodies: The Formation of Scriptures in Early Judaism
Qumran Cave 4: Its Archaeology and its Manuscript Collection
Un nouveau manuscrit de Daniel : 4QDnf = 4Q116a
4Q341: A Writing Exercise Remembered
4Q47 (4QJosha): An Abbreviated Text?
Memories of Amalek (4Q252 4:1–3): The Imprecatory Function of the Edomite Genealogy in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Texts within Texts: The Text of Jeremiah in the Exegetical Literature from Qumran
Text, Intertext, and Conceptual Identity: The Case of Ephraim and the Seekers of Smooth Things
Deriving Negative Anthropology through Exegetical Activity: The Hodayot as Case Study
The Tefillin from the Judean Desert and the Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Dittography and Copying Lines in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Considering George Brooke’s Proposal about 1QpHab 7:1–2
Pseudepigraphy and a Scribal Sense of the Past in the Ancient Mediterranean: A Copy of the Book of the Words of the Vision of Amram
The Textual Growth of the Damascus Document Revisited
Medieval Hebrew Tellings of Tobit: “Versions” of the Book of Tobit or New Texts?
Some Thoughts on the Relationship between the Book of Jubilees and the Genesis Apocryphon
Tobit and the Qumran Aramaic Texts
Metaphor and Eschatology: Life beyond Death in the Hodayot
The Book of HGY and Ancient Reading Practices
Ritualization and the Power of Listing in 4QBerakhota (4Q286)
Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Period: Towards the Study of a Semantic Constellation
In the Garden of Good and Evil: Reimagining a Tradition (Sir 17:1–14, 4Q303, 4QInstruction, 1QS 4:25–26, and 1QSa 1:10–11)
How Should We Feel about the Teacher of Righteousness?
The Teacher of Righteousness and His Enemies
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Subjects

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