Pesher and hypomnema a comparison of two commentary collections 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 movement which produced and preserved the Dead Sea Scrolls adopted classical commentary writing and adapted it to their own needs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartog, Pieter B
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2017, [2017]
Series:Studies on the texts of the Desert of Judah
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 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
  • Pesher and Hypomnema