4Q Pesher Nahum A Critical Edition |
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| Author:
| Doudna, Gregory |
| Series edited by:
| Grabbe, Lester L. |
| Series title: | Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84127-156-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | T&T Clark |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $430.00 |
Book Description:
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4Q Pesher Nahum has long been considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Scrolls. Doudna's comprehensive critical edition presents new readings and undertakes extensive analysis and reconstruction of broken text. Areas of focus include text-critical implications, scribal practices, and formal and composition patterns common throughout the Qumran pesharim. An outcome of this work sure to attract attention is its demonstration that...
More Description4Q Pesher Nahum has long been considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Scrolls. Doudna's comprehensive critical edition presents new readings and undertakes extensive analysis and reconstruction of broken text. Areas of focus include text-critical implications, scribal practices, and formal and composition patterns common throughout the Qumran pesharim. An outcome of this work sure to attract attention is its demonstration that the mysterious 'Lion of Wrath' figure of the text is not the Hasmonaean king Alexander Jannaeus, as almost universally held. Rather, Pesher Nahum portrays a coming conquest from the 'Kittim', and the 'Lion of Wrath' is a Nebuchadnezzar-like foreign invader coming to deliver the wrath of God on a sinful Israel. There is also an Appendix: 'Was Hyrcanus II the Teacher of Righteousness and Were the Scrolls Deposited in the Caves near Qumran in 40 bce?'