The Mermaid and the Partridge: Essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four

Full title
The Mermaid and the Partridge: Essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four
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Author(s)
Brooke, George J
Høgenhaven, Jesper
Year
2011
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Issue / Series Volume
147
Label
06/06/2011
Abstract

For some years a project has been under way to carry out a thoroughgoing revision of volume V in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan). The team of scholars responsible for the new edition - including many who have written monographs or extensive studies on the respective manuscripts for which they have now assumed responsibility - was invited by the Department of Biblical Exegesis of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen to meet in Copenhagen in June 2009. The conference offered the opportunity for the presentation of some working papers on topics that were of particular concern to the individual contributors to the revision. The present volume represents the ongoing work on the edition, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968) as well as important aspects of the present Qumran scholarship.