Qumran Scholarship and the Study of the Old Testament in the New Testament

Full title
Qumran Scholarship and the Study of the Old Testament in the New Testament
Research notes

MDE/Reader Checked/15/10/2015

Reference type
Author(s)
Lim, Timothy
Year
2015
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Volume
38
Issue / Series Volume
1
Abbreviated Series Name
JSNT
Pages
68-80
Work type
Label
26/10/2015
Abstract

This article argues that Qumran scholarship provides contextual and contingent perspectives in the study of the use of scripture by the New Testament authors. First, post-Qumran textual criticism has highlighted textual diversity in the period of the New Testament, raising questions about alleged exegetical variants as well as the characterizations of the Pauline citations as ‘septuagintal’. Second, while the canon of the Hebrew Bible remained open in the middle of the first century, Paul’s implied bible was consistent with the Pharisaic canon that eventually became the Rabbinic Bible. Finally, the theory of the sectarian matrix both accounts for the use of the same biblical passages and the divergent interpretations of them among various sects in the Second Temple period.