by hadassah | Aug 6, 2008 | Biblical Literature
Isaiah Scroll: 1QIsa B IQIsab is a second copy of the biblical book of Isaiah from Qumran Cave I. The orthography (spelling) in this scroll is defective and more like the Masoretic text (i.e., the ordinary Hebrew Bible) than the Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Biblical Literature
The Dead Sea Scrolls Apocryphal compositions are essentially rewritten Biblical passages which either retell or supplement the biblical text. These compositions are represented as independent works and not as commentaries to the Bible. As similar material was found at...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Biblical Literature
The Targumim, Emanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible, Fortress Press, Minneapolis 1992. B. Grossfeld, A Bibliography of Targum Literature, vols. 1–2 (Cincinnati/New York 1972, 1977). P.S. Alexander, “Jewish Aramaic Translations of Hebrew...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Biblical Literature
Commentary on Isaiah Chapters 1-12, Tziporah Levine, COJS. Introduction to the Book of Isaiah A pervasive theme of the book of Isaiah is the creation of an ethical, God-fearing society. The terms mishpat (justice) and sedaqah (righteousness) recur throughout...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Biblical Literature
Samuel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. One of the Samuel manuscripts from Qumran, the Samuel B Scroll, has been identified, along with the Jeremiah A Scroll, discussed later, as one of the...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Biblical Literature
The Isaiah Texts, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. The first biblical texts discovered in the Qumran caves by the Bedouin shepherd were the two Isaiah Scrolls of cave 1 (Isaiah A and Isaiah...
