The Mermaid and the Partridge. Essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 96)

For some years a project has been under way to carry out a thoroughgoing revision of volume V in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan). The team of scholars responsible for the new edition - including many who have written monographs or extensive studies on the respective manuscripts for which they have now assumed responsibility - was invited by the Department of Biblical Exegesis of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen to meet in Copenhagen in June 2009. The conference offered the opportunity for the presentation of some working papers on topics that were of particular concern to the individual contributors to the revision. The present volume represents the ongoing work on the edition, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968) as well as important aspects of the present Qumran scholarship. Building Textual Bridges : Towards And Understanding Of 4q158 (4qreworked Pentateuch A) / Molly M. Zahn -- 4q159 : Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre / Moshe J. Bernstein -- Re-reading 4qpesher Isiaiah A (4q161) : Forty Years After Djd V / Alex P. Jassen -- Reading Hosea At Qumran / Roman Vielhauer -- Two Approaches To The Study Of Genre In 4q172 / Trine B. Hasselbalch -- 4q173a : A Fragment Of An Eschatological Midrash? / Søren Holst -- From Florilegium Or Midrash To Commentary : The Problem Of Re-naming An Adopted Manuscript / George J. Brooke -- 4qtanḥumim (4q176) : Between Exegesis And Treatise? / Jesper Høgenhaven -- Theme And Genre In 4q177 And Its Scriptural Selections / Mark Laughlin And Shani Tzoref -- 4qsapiential Admonitions B (4q185) : Unsolved Challenges Of The Hebrew Text / Mika S. Pajunen -- 4q186 : 4qzodiacal Physiognomy : A Full Edition / Mladen Popović -- Allusions To The End Of The Hasmonean Dynasty In Pesher Nahum (4q169) / Gregory L. Doudna -- Pesher Commentary And Its Afterlife In The New Testament / Mogens Müller. Edited By George J. Brooke And Jesper Hogenhaven. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of Abbreviations......Page 8 Introduction......Page 12 Building Textual Bridges Towards an Understanding of 4Q158 (4QReworked Pentateuch A)......Page 24 4Q159: Nomenclature, Text, Exegesis, Genre......Page 44 Re-reading 4QPesher Isaiah A (4Q161). Forty Years After DJD V......Page 68 Reading Hosea at Qumran......Page 102 Two Approaches to the Study of Genre in 4Q172......Page 120 4Q173a: A Part of an Eschatological Midrash?......Page 130 From Florilegium or Midrash to Commentary: The Problem of Re-naming an Adopted Manuscript......Page 140 4QTanhumim (4Q176): Between Exegesis and Treatise?......Page 162 Theme and Genre in 4Q177 and its Scriptural Selections......Page 180 4QSapiential Admonitions B (4Q185): Unsolved Challenges of the Hebrew Text......Page 202 4Q186. 4QZodiacal Physiognomy. A Full Edition......Page 232 Allusions to the End of the Hasmonean Dyanasty in Pesher Nahum (4Q169)......Page 270 Pesher Commentary and Its Afterlife in the New Testament......Page 290 Index of Biblical References......Page 300 Index of Scrolls and Other Classical Sources......Page 306 Index of Modern Authors......Page 317 This is an update on the projected revision of vol. v in the series Discoveries in the Judean Desert published in 1968. Each contributing scholar was invited by the Department of Biblical Exegesis of the University of Copenhagen to meet in Copenhagen in June 2009 and given the opportunity to speak on topics of particular concerns to them regarding the manuscripts for which they have now assumed responsibility. The result reflects the ongoing work on the forthcoming new edition, the development in new approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published as well as important aspects of present Qumran scholarship This volume, which contains the papers from a conference in Copenhagen in June 2009 on the texts from DJD V, represents the ongoing work on the re-edition of these texts, and reflects the development in approaches and viewpoints since the texts were first published (1968).