Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents:
Rhetorics of identification, distinction, and persuasion in MiqsĐat Maaseh 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.
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