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War Traditions from the Qumran Caves
Re-Thinking Textual Stability and Fluidity in the War Text manuscripts
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Hanna Vanonen
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki.
In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional chronological literary-critical model. In addition, Vanonen argues that at least liturgical use and study purposes may have created needs for producing different manuscripts that were simultaneously important.
"V. has provided a solid and well documented study of all significant fragments of the War Texts from Cave 4 and 11...her careful observation of the material facts is a fresh and important contribution to the understanding of the various purposes, audiences, and uses of these manuscripts." Jean Duhaime, Montreal, Theologische Literaturzeitung 149 (2024) 1/2
In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional chronological literary-critical model. In addition, Vanonen argues that at least liturgical use and study purposes may have created needs for producing different manuscripts that were simultaneously important.
"V. has provided a solid and well documented study of all significant fragments of the War Texts from Cave 4 and 11...her careful observation of the material facts is a fresh and important contribution to the understanding of the various purposes, audiences, and uses of these manuscripts." Jean Duhaime, Montreal, Theologische Literaturzeitung 149 (2024) 1/2
Author / Editor information
Hanna Vanonen received her Ph.D. in Theology (2017) from the University of Helsinki, Finland in 2017.
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eBook published on:
June 20, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9789004512061
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Main content:
338
eBook ISBN:
9789004512061
Keywords for this book
War Scroll; 1QM; 4Q491; Sefer ha-Milhamah; Qumran opisthographs; Dead Sea Scrolls; Qumran manuscripts; material philology; ancient scribes; Second Temple Judaism
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the Qumran War Scroll and related manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls generally, Second Temple Jewish literature, manuscript studies, and literary representations of war and violence in antiquity.
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BY-NC 4.0
