Liturgical Works Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls
James R. Davila
- U.S.A. William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2000
- 338tr. paperback, illustrations 23cm
- Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls .
In this volume, the first to be published in the Eerdmans Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls series, James Davila introduces, translates, and provides a detailed exegesis of these important documents. The book begins with a general introduction to the Qumran library and Jewish liturgical traditions. Davila then provides an introduction, translation, notes on the original Hebrew, and line-by-line commentary for each of the Qumran liturgical works. Davila's excellent translation work combines overlapping fragmentary manuscripts into a single, smoothly flowing text, and his commentary includes numerous fresh insights and observations on these writings. Giving full attention to parallel texts found in the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish and Christian writings through late antiquity, Davila firmly situates the Qumran liturgical works in their historical context in Second Temple Judaism and discusses their significance as background to the Jewish liturgy, Jewish mysticism, and Christian origins.
9780802843807, 0802843808
Dead Sea scrolls -- History and criticism Liturgics -- History Judaism__History