| Description |
1 online resource (242 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in Miqṛat Maʻaśeh ha-Torah (4QMMT) -- Performative rhetorical strategies in the Rule of the community (1QS) -- Dissociation as a rhetorical strategy in the Damascus document (CD) -- Impurity and purification as material rhetoric in the Purification rules (4QTohorot A and B) and the Temple scroll (11QT) -- Hermeneutics/rhetoric in the Book of Habakkuk and the Habakkuk pesher (1QpHab). |
| Summary |
"Investigates the rhetorical strategies used by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Illustrates strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation in response to evolving historical contexts"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dead Sea scrolls.
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Dead Sea scrolls. |
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Dead Sea scrolls. |
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Rhetoric -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. |
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Essenes.
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Qumran community.
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Essenes. |
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Qumran community. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. |
| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McComiskey, Bruce. Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls. University Park : Penn State University Press, ©2021 9780271090153 |
| ISBN |
9780271090528 electronic book |
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0271090529 electronic book |
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9780271090504 electronic book |
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0271090502 electronic book |
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