The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. The Bible Interpreting Itself 1
5. Textual Harmonization in the Stories of the Patriarchs 19
6. Where Are the Patriarchs in the Literature of Qumran? 51
7. The First Patriarchs: Law and Narrative in the Garden of Eden Story 77
8. The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Perspective of Qumran Hebrew Texts 101
9. The Flood as a Preamble to the Lives of the Patriarchs: The Biblical Perspective 135
10. Sodom and Gomorrah: From the Bible to Qumran 147
11. Jacob and His House in the Scrolls from Qumran 171
12. With My Sword and Bow: Jacob as Warrior in Jubilees 189
13. Levi, the Levites, and the Law 215
14. The Burial of the Fathers in the Visions of Amram from Qumran 231
15. The Patriarchs and Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls 251
16. Shabbat, Circumcision and Circumcision on Shabbat in Jubilees and the Dead Sea Scrolls 263
17. Index 289