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

Updated by: 
Michal Drori Elmalem
Research notes: 
MDE/Reader Checked/15/10/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Lim, Timothy
year: 
2015
Full title: 

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

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: 
Essay/Monograph
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.

Label: 
26/10/2015
Record number: 
100 913