Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period

In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that members of the Qumran movement adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own needs.

Plates
|Preliminary Material
|Introduction
|The Hypomnemata and the Pesharim as Expressions of Intellectual Culture
|Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Hypomnemata
|Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Pesharim
|A Bifold Structure
|Structure and Scholarship in the Hypomnemata
|Structure and Interpretation in the Pesharim
|Describing Hermeneutics
|A Hermeneutical Profile of the Hypomnemata
|A Hermeneutical Profile of the Pesharim
|Conclusion: Pesher and Hypomnema