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This book is a comprehensive treatment of prophecy and revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It begins by analyzing the re-presentation of the classical prophets and their revelatory experience in an attempt to identify how prophecy and revelation was reconceptualized in the Dead Sea Scrolls in dialogue and in contrast with received biblical models. This work then examines the direct evidence in the Dead Sea Scrolls regarding ongoing prophetic activity at Qumran and in related segments of Second Temple Judaism. This study argues that the Dead Sea Scrolls bear witness to a transformed prophetic tradition active at Qumran and in Second Temple Judaism. Topics treated include the relationship of prophecy to scriptural interpretation, wisdom, and law, and eschatological prophecy.
Contents: Part One: Prophetic traditions in the Dead Sea scrolls. N āb î, Pesher, and predictive prophecy in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Prophets and progressive revelation: the presentation of the prophets as lawgivers in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Biblical prophetic epithets in transition I: prophetic ’visionaries’ -- Biblical prophetic epithets in transition II: prophetic ’anointed ones’ -- The ’man of God’ and prophetic ’servants’ from the Bible to Qumran -- The prophet at the end of days: the development of a tradition -- The juridical eschatological prophet in the Dead Sea scrolls -- The eschatological prophet of consolation in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Part Tow: Modified modes of revelation in the Dead Sea scrolls. Revelatory exegesis: the turn to literary prophecy -- Revelatory exegesis in Second Temple literary traditions -- Sapiential revelation: wisdom and prophecy in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Sapiential revelation in apocalyptic literature preserved at Qumran -- Part Three: Prophecy and revelation at Qumran and in the Second Temple period. The persistence of prophecy in the late Second Temple period -- Sapiential revelation in Second Temple Judaism -- Prophecy and law in the Qumran community -- Revelatory exegesis at Qumran -- Sapiential revelation at Qumran.|Read more: http://books.google.co.il/books?id=KoypYEApwsoC&printsec=frontcover&hl=…