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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...

PESHER AND THE NEW TESTAMENT The genre of Pesher was directly applied to the exegesis of many parts of the New Testament, especially those of Matthew and Paul. A prominent example is Krister Stendahl’s study (1954) of the so-called ‘formula quotations’ (an English synonym for the German Reflexionscitate), a group of some twenty quotations of the Old Testament text in the Gospel of Matthew, that are characterized by the introductory formula ‘in order that it may be fulfilled’. He argued that in
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