Mediating the Divine: Prophecy and Revelation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism

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=iw&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false