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Ausgabe:

September/2017

Spalte:

897–898

Kategorie:

Altes Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Feldman, Ariel

Titel/Untertitel:

The Dead Sea Scrolls Rewriting Samuel and Kings. Texts and Commentary.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2015. XII, 206 S. = Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 469. Geb. EUR 79,95. ISBN 978-3-11-033811-9.

Rezensent:

Shani Tzoref

This volume is an edition of four fragmentary manuscripts from Qumran that are identified as »rewritings« of the books of Samuel and Kings: 4Q160, 4Q382, 4Q481a, and 6Q9.
The text-editions and commentaries are preceded by a chapter that surveys the representations of Samuel and Kings in the Qumran corpus, and contextualizes this material within the larger body of Second Temple literature (delineated as writings outside the Jewish canon, composed up to 70 C. E., with the addition of Chronicles and Josephus’ Antiquities). The organization of this chapter according to »modes of composition« maximizes the effectiveness of the comparison of the Qumran writings to previously known texts. The survey begins with a succinct discussion of the text-critical value of the Qumran ...


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