Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Essays in Memory of Peter W. Flint

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This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible. Most of the text critical studies deal with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including sectarian as well as canonical texts. Two essays shed light on the formation of authoritative literature. Scribal practice is illustrated in various ways, again mostly from the Dead Sea Scrolls. One essay deals with diachronic change in Qumran Hebrew. Rounding out the volume are two thematic studies, a wide-ranging study of the “ambiguous oracle” of Josephus, which he identifies as Balaam’s oracle, and a review of the use of female metaphors for Wisdom.
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Front Matter
Copyright page
Frontispiece
Dedication
Preface
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Peter Flint in Memoriam
Part 1 Text and Canon
Chapter 1 Qumran Evidence for the Text and Canon of the Bible
Part 2 Text-Critical Studies
Chapter 2 Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls: What Not to Expect of the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)
Chapter 3 4QLXXNum and a Text-Critical Examination of a Debated Hebrew Term in Numbers 4
Chapter 4 The Ezekiel Manuscripts from the Dead Sea, the Ancient Versions, and the Textual History of Ezekiel
Chapter 5 On “True” Editions: Pluriformity and Authority between Psalms and Serekh
Chapter 6 A Textual Analysis of Pseudo-Ezekiel (4Q385 and 4Q386): Rewritten or Merely Copies of Each Other
Chapter 7 Nebuchadnezzar Found and Forgotten: a New Fragment of 4Q385a (4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Ca) 18 i
Part 3 Canon and Authority
Chapter 8 Uses of Earlier Literature in Some Second Temple Texts
Chapter 9 An Examination of the Songs of Ascents and Psalm 119 in 11QPsa
Part 4 Scribal Practice
Chapter 10 Qumran Scribal Practice: Won Moor Thyme
Chapter 11 The Grain of the Kittim in the Habakkuk Pesher: a New Reading of ומאכלו ברו (1QpHab 6:5)
Chapter 12 The Vistas of Variant Readings: Towards an Understanding of Scribal Transmission as Reception in the Qumran Fragments of Aramaic Daniel
Chapter 13 Exegesis of the Bible Enriched by the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 14 The Excerpted Manuscripts from Qumran, with Special Attention to 4QReworked Pentateuch D and 4QReworked Pentateuch E
Part 5 Language
Chapter 15 Trajectories of Diachronic Change in Qumran Hebrew: Evidence from the Negative Existential in Post-Predicate Position
Part 6 Thematic Studies
Chapter 16 The Star of Balaam and the Prophecy of Josephus concerning Vespasian
Chapter 17 Lady Metaphors in Judaic Wisdom Literature
Back Matter
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Biography, and The Invention of Judaism. Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul. Ananda Geyser-Fouché is Senior Lecturer of Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. She has published peer-reviewed articles in academic renowned journals and was the sub-editor of the bundle in HTS Theological Studies Original Research: Special Collection Qumran Texts, 2016.
This memorial volume does justice to the memory of Peter Flint as an accomplished Qumran scholar, and the volume provides non-Qumran specialists a thoughtful and wideranging survey of the lay of the research landscape related to Dead Sea Scroll studies and enough minutiae to titillate the palate of the specialists. The editors and publisher deserve praise for a well-presented manuscript that can seriously be considered for both private and library bookshelves.

Hendrik Bosman, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, 2020

This is a fascinating assembly of detailed studies, intersecting throughout with Flint’s own interests and engaging repeatedly with his work. Taken together with the 2017 collection, these two memorial volumes form a worthy tribute to the man himself.
Matthew A. Collins, SOTS Review
Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on the Text

Introduction

1 The Birth of a Cambridge Humanist (1516–1543)
 1 The Early Years

 2 Student at Queens’ College, Cambridge

 3 Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge

 4 Bursar of Queens’ College, Cambridge

 5 Final Years at Queens’ College, Cambridge

 6 Summary


2 The Rise of an Evangelical Theologian (1543–1549)
 1 Evangelical Patronage and Preparation

 2 Evangelical Study and Publication

 3 Summary


3 The Accomplishments of an Edwardian Bishop (1550–1553)
 1 The Notable Sermon

 2 Bishop of Rochester

 3 Bishop of Winchester

 4 Summary


4 The Life and Death of a Marian Insurgent (1553–1556)
 1 The Rise of Queen Mary and the Rising of Thomas Wyatt

 2 Settling in Strassburg

 3 Tragedies and Terminus

 4 Summary


5 The Theological Writings of a Marian Insurgent (1553–1556)
 1 The Debate over Clerical Marriage

 2 Behind the Debate over Clerical Marriage

 3 The Draft Reply: Provenance
 3.1 Questions of Authorship

 3.2 Dating of Annotations


 4 The Draft Reply: Literary Structures
 4.1 Organisation of Notation

 4.2 Symbols and Structures

 4.3 Corrections and Errors

 4.4 Use of Sources


 5 The Draft Reply: Polemical Processes

 6 Theology in Strassburg: Holy Scripture

 7 Theology in Strassburg: Clerical Marriage
 7.1 The Tradition of Clerical Celibacy

 7.2 Hermeneutical Framework

 7.3 Old Testament Exegesis

 7.4 New Testament Exegesis

 7.5 Vows of Celibacy

 7.6 The Gift of Celibacy


 8 Theology in Strassburg: A Misattribution to Ponet on the Eucharist

 9 Theology in Strassburg: Political Theology
 9.1 Calvinist Resistance Theory?


 10 Summary


Conclusion

Appendix 1: Letters Relative to John Ponet

Appendix 2: John Ponet’s Books

Appendix 3: List of Sources in the Draft Reply

Bibliography

Index

Biblical Scholars and scholars of ancient Judaism, and graduate students.
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