This volume presents texts from sites in the Judaean Desert including Aramaic and Greek documentary papyri with the addition of a few Hebrew papyri. It also includes several literary texts which are mainly leather fragments of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike the documents from Qumran itself, these have the advantage of being found in a well-recorded archaeological context. The sites discussed here include Ketef Jericho, Nahal Sdeir (Nahal David), Nahal Hever and Nahal Hever/Seiyal, Nahal Mishmar, and Nahal Se'elim.

Miscellaneous Texts from the Judaean Desert (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert)

History

Charlesworth, James

FLINT, Peter

Murphy, Katherine

Eshel, Hanan

Cohen, Nahum

Cotton, Hannah

Segal, Michael

Eshel, Esther

Misgav, Haggai

Morgenstern, Mathew

Yardeni, Ada.

Zissu, Boaz

Ancient Civilizations

Clarendon Press

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NautilusThink, Inc.

Traces the life of the three-term Massachussetts governor, describes his education, and reviews his accomplishments in state politics

Dukakis: The Man Who Would Be President

Gaines, Richard

Biographies & Memoirs

Avon/Books

"Authors Richard Gaines and Michael Segal offer an absorbing account of Michael Dukakis as a child growing up with strick, Greek immigrant parents ; as a young man coming of age at a time when his state was experiencing a profound shift away from ward politics to issue politics ; and as a governor who transformed himself from one of the most idealistic and ineffective governors in America into one of the most sophisticated and respected." --from inside jacket.

Dukakis and the Reform Impulse

Americas

Olympic Marketing Corp

The volume contains eight original studies, each of which focuses on a different chapter or central passage in Daniel and offers a new interpretation or reading of the passage in question. The studies span the Danielic tales and apocalypses, offering innovative analyses that often challenge the scholarly consensus regarding the exegesis of this book. The eight chapters relate to Daniel 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, Susanna, and the conception of angelology in Daniel. The studies are all based on careful textual analysis, including comparison between the Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek versions (especially regarding Daniel 4 6), and, in each case, the larger arguments are built upon solid philological foundations. Many of the insights proposed in this volume are based upon the realization that the authors of Daniel were frequently interpreters of earlier biblical books, and that the identification of these intertextual clues can be the key to unlocking the meaning of these texts. In this sense, Daniel is similar to other contemporaneous works, such as Jubilees and Qumran literature, but the extent of this phenomenon has not been fully appreciated by scholars of the book. This volume therefore contributes to the appreciation of Daniel as both the latest book in the Hebrew Bible, and a significant work in the landscape of Second Temple Judaism.  "

Dreams, Riddles, and Visions: Textual, Contextual, and Intertextual Approaches to the Book of Daniel (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 455)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

de Gruyter

In light of numerous contradictions between passages in Jubilees, this study proposes a new, literary-critical method to understand the development of the book. This analysis is significant for the interpretation of the diverse ideological and theological viewpoints found in Jubilees.

The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (SUPPLEMENTS TO THE JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF JUDAISM, 117)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

SEFER HAYOVLIM. Jubilees is a pseudepigraphical composition from the second century BCE, which was preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book rewrites the Pentateuch until the Sinaitic revelation, by means of additions, omissions and other changes. Scholars tend to the view it as a unified work, composed by one author. In light of numerous contradictions, both in narrative details and in issues of biblical interpretation, Michael Segal suggests a new approach towards understanding the literary development of the work: a redactor relied upon extant sources, generally rewritten biblical narratives, and incorporated them into a new literary framework. The redactors unique contribution can be identified in the chronological framework and the legal passages. The internal contradictions between the different literary genres are the result of the literary development of the book. This source-critical analysis reveals a unified, complete worldview in the redactional layer of the book, which can be summarized by one fundamental principle: God established the entire world order at the time of creation. This is exemplified through the analysis of the question of the origin of evil in the world, perhaps the most pressing theological issue for any monotheistic religion. Throughout the book, one finds different approaches to this critical question, but when the redactional layer is examined by itself, a clear view emerges God created both good and evil at the dawn of time as part of a cosmic, dualistic system. This book is intended for all those interested in Bible, Jewish literature of the Second Temple period, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and Early Biblical Exegesis.

The Book of Jubilees: Rewritten Bible, Redaction, Ideology and Theology (Hebrew Edition)

Judaism

Magnes Pr

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