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This volume introduces the reader to one of the most important genres of sectarian writing from Qumran: the Pesharim, or biblical commentaries. Timothy Lim systematically discusses the textual characteristics of the quoted bible verses, the literary genre and its relationship with rabbinic midrash, the characteristics of sectarian exegesis, the nature of the historical allusions, and the common...

The Dead Sea Scrolls can refer broadly to all the ancient manuscripts discovered in the modern age in the Judaean Wilderness up and down the western side of the Dead Sea, or they can designate specifically those scrolls and fragments first unearthed in 1947 in the eleven caves situated on the hillside surrounding the north-western corner of ‘the Sea of Salt’ (yam hamelaḥ). The latter, narrower definition, which will be used here, most
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