The cave 4 Apocryphon of Jeremiah and the Qumran Jeremianic traditions : prophetic persona and the construction of community identity /

The Cave 4 'Apocryphon of Jeremiah C' from Qumran survives in several copies, and presents significant links between the prophet Jeremiah, the scriptural book of Jeremiah, and the collectors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Because the prophet is only occasionally named in the Scrolls, and there a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Kipp
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2014.
Series:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 111.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction. The Enigmatic Prophet Jeremiah and His Manifestations in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Chapter 1. From Rewritten Bible to Reputation: A Fresh Methodological Approach to Appropriating Jeremiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls; 1.1. Is the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C a Rewritten Bible"" Text?; 1.2. Perceptions of Prophets and Prophecy in Second Temple Judaism; 1.3. Reputation and Authority: Jeremiah the Prophet As a "Founder" in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Chapter 2. The Apocryphon of Jeremiah: A Material and Synoptic Overview.
  • 2.1. Paraprophetic Narratives"" or ""Pseudo-Prophetic Texts""? An Introduction to the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C and Pseudo-Ezekiel2.2. The Classification of Manuscripts; 2.2.1. Devorah Dimant and Arguments for Multiple Compositions; 2.2.2. Monica L.W. Brady and Arguments for a "Single Work in Multiple Copies"; 2.2.3. Cana Werman et al., 4Q390 and Pseudo-Moses Revisited; 2.2.4. A New Edition by Elisha Qimron; 2.3. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Ca (4Q385a): Reconstruction and Location of Fragments; 2.3.1. Material Joins; 2.3.2. Distant Joins.
  • 2.4. Descriptions of the Other Witnesses to the Apocryphon C: 4Q387, 4Q388a, 4Q3892.4.1. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Cb (4Q387); 2.4.2. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Cc (4Q388a); 2.4.3. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Cd (4Q389); 2.5. Conclusion: The Extents and Limits of Reconstruction; Chapter 3. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Ca (4Q385a): The Reconstructed Text and Translation with Notes, in Conversation with the Other Witnesses (4Q387, 4Q388a, 4Q389); 3.1. Introduction to the Reconstructed Text; 3.2. The Reconstructed Text with Translation, Notes and Comments; 3.2.1. Group I-Fragments 1-6.
  • 3.3. 4Q387, 4Q388a, and 4Q389: Textual Witnesses to the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C3.3.1. An Introduction to the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C?; 3.4. A Proposed Synopsis of the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C; 3.4.1. Introduction (4Q389 frg. 1); 3.4.2. Historical Discourse; 3.4.3. Second Temple Apocalypse; 3.4.4a. Eschatological Prediction; 3.4.4b. Prophetic Oracles; 3.4.5. Prophetic Oracle of Judgement: A Previously Unattested Version of Nahum 3:8-10; 3.4.6. Post-destruction Narrative Summary; 3.5. Conclusion: The Apocryphon of Jeremiah C As a Jeremianic Composition.
  • Chapter 4. 4Q390 and the Second Temple Apocalypse Redux4.1. More Apocrypha of Jeremiah: The Apocryphon of Jeremiah A-B? (4Q383, 4Q384), and 4Q387a in Perspective; 4.1.1. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah A (4Q383); 4.1.2. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah B? (4Q384); 4.1.3. 4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Cf (4Q387a); 4.2. 4Q390: Differentiation from the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, and the Evidence for Reworking; 4.2.1. Material Rationale for Separation; 4.2.2. Variation in Verbal Constructions in 4Q390; 4.2.3. Ideology, Religion, and History in 4Q390 and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C.