This article investigates some of the previous claims that have been made for the knowledge of the book of Esther at Qumran. Following the recent advances in the study of textual allusion and re-use, it is no longer tenable to posit any reference to or knowledge of Esther within the writings from Qumran. In addition, it is argued that the one case where a relationship to Esther seemed most certain is better explained amongst other literary references to Amos.
Purchase
Buy instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):
Institutional Login
Log in with Open Athens, Shibboleth, or your institutional credentials
Personal login
Log in with your brill.com account
Beckwith, Roger. The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church: And its Background in Early Judaism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.
Ben-Dov, Jonathan. “A Presumed Citation of Esther 3:7 in 4QDb.” DSD 6 (1999): 282–84.
Ben-Porat, Ziva. “The Poetics of Literary Allusion.” PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 1 (1976): 105–28.
Bergey, Ron. “The Book of Esther: Its Place in the Linguistic Milieu of Post-Exilic Biblical Hebrew Prose: A Study in Late Biblical Hebrew.” Ph.D. diss., The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1983.
Bergey, Ron. “Late Linguistic Features in Esther,” JQR 75 (1984): 66–78.
Bohak, Gideon. Ancient Jewish Magic: A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Brettler, Marc. “Identifying Torah Sources in the Historical Psalms.” Pages 73–90 in Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Ziony Zevit. Sheffield: Equinox, 2017.
Candido, Dionisio. “The Book of Esther: Where Vetus Latina and Alpha Text Meet.” SBL Annual Meeting, November 2019, San Diego.
Carr, David. “Method in Determination of Direction of Dependence: An Empirical Test of Criteria Applied to Exodus 34, 11–26 and Its Parallels.” Pages 107–40 in Gottes Volk am Sinai: Untersuchungen zu Ex 32–34 und Dtn 9–10. Edited by Matthias Köckert and Erhard Blum. Gütersloh: C. Kaiser, 2001.
Clines, David J.A. The Esther Scroll: The Story of the Story. JSOTSup 30. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1984.
Cook, Herbert J. “The A-text of the Greek Versions of the Book of Esther.” ZAW 81 (1969): 369–76.
Crawford, Sidnie White. “Has Esther Been Found at Qumran? 4QProto-Esther and the Esther Corpus.” RevQ 17 (1996): 307–25.
Crawford, Sidnie White. “Esther, Book of.” Pages 269–70 in the Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Lawrence H. Schiffman and James C. VanderKam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Darshan, Guy. “The Original Language of 1Maccabees: A Reexamination.” BN 182 (2019): 91–110.
De Troyer, Kirstin. The End of the Alpha Text of Esther: Translation and Narrative Technique in MT 8:1–17, LXX 8:1–17, and AT 7:14–41. SCS 48. Atlanta: SBL, 2000.
De Troyer, Kirstin. “Once More, the So-called Esther Fragments of Cave 4.” RevQ 19 (2000): 401–22.
Finkel, Joshua. “The Author of the Genesis Apocryphon Knew the Book of Esther.” Pages 163–82 in Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls: In Memory of E.L. Sukenik. Edited by Chaim Rabin and Yigael Yadin. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1983 (Hebrew).
Fox, Michael. The Redaction of the Books of Esther. Atlanta: Scholars, 1991.
Haelewyck, Jean-Claude. “The Relevance of the Old Latin Version for the Septuagint, with Special Emphasis on the Book of Esther.” JTS NS 57 (2006): 444–73.
Hughes, Julie A. Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot. STDJ 59. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
Kalimi, Isaac. “The Book of Esther and the Dead Sea Scrolls’ Community.” TZ 60 (2004): 101–6.
Kelly, Joseph R. “Identifying Literary Allusions: Theory and the Criterion of Shared Language.” Pages 22–40 in Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible. Edited by Ziony Zevit. Sheffield: Equinox, 2017.
Kittel, Bonnie P. The Hymns of Qumran: Translation and Commentary. SBLDS 50. Chico: Scholars, 1981.
Koller, Aaron. Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Lange, Armin. Die Handschriften biblischer Bücher von Qumran und den anderen Fundorten. Vol. 1 of Handbuch der Textfunde vom Toten Meer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.
Lange, Armin, and Matthias Weigold. Biblical Quotations and Allusions in Second Temple Jewish Literature. JAJSup 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011.
Leonard, Jefferey M. “Identifying Inner-Biblical Allusions: Psalm 78 as a Test Case.” JBL 127 (2008): 241–65.
Levenson, Jon D. Esther: A Commentary. OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997.
Machiela, Daniel A. The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13–17. STDJ 79. Leiden: Brill, 2009.
Nickelsburg, George W.E. 1Enoch 1: A Commentary on the Book of 1Enoch, Chapters 1–36; 81–108. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.
Sommer, Benjamin D. “Exegesis, Allusion and Intertextuality in the Hebrew Bible: A Response to Lyle Eslinger.” VT 46 (1996): 479–89.
Talmon, Shemaryahu. “Was the Book of Esther Known at Qumran?” DSD 2 (1995): 249–67.
Tooman, William. Gog of Magog. FAT 2.52. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011.
Torrey, Charles C. “The Older Book of Esther.” HTR 37 (1944): 14–25.
Tov, Emanuel. “The ‘Lucianic’ Text of the Canonical and Apocryphal Sections of Esther: A Rewritten Biblical Book.” Textus 10 (1982): 1–25.
VanderKam, James C., and Peter W. Flint. The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. San Francisco: Harper, 2002.
Wills, Lawrence M. The Jew in the Court of the Foreign King: Ancient Jewish Court Legends. HDR 26. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1990.
Zahn, Molly. “Identifying Reuse of Scripture in the Temple Scroll: Some Methodological Reflections.” Pages 341–58 in vol. 1 of A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam. Edited by Eric F. Mason et al. JSJSup 153/1. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Zevit, Ziony (ed.). Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible. Sheffield: Equinox, 2017.
All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
---|---|---|---|
Abstract Views | 466 | 137 | 28 |
Full Text Views | 81 | 15 | 4 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 201 | 37 | 13 |
This article investigates some of the previous claims that have been made for the knowledge of the book of Esther at Qumran. Following the recent advances in the study of textual allusion and re-use, it is no longer tenable to posit any reference to or knowledge of Esther within the writings from Qumran. In addition, it is argued that the one case where a relationship to Esther seemed most certain is better explained amongst other literary references to Amos.
All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
---|---|---|---|
Abstract Views | 466 | 137 | 28 |
Full Text Views | 81 | 15 | 4 |
PDF Views & Downloads | 201 | 37 | 13 |