From literature to scripture: Reflections on the growth of a text's authoritativeness

Dead Sea Discoveries

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-25

  Ulrich, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 61949365761     PISSN: 09290761     EISSN: 15685179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685170360584137     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. A. Bennett, P. Cook, J. Miller, and D. Moore, Beyond the Fringe (New York: Random House, 1963) 78. Shortly after the opening of this essay had been written, Dudley Moore passed away on 27 March 2002
2. and H. Najman, "Angels at Sinai: Exegesis, Theology and Interpretive Authority," DSD 7 (2000) 313-33, esp. 316
3. B.S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979) 513
4. J. Sanders, Canon and Community: A Guide to Canonical Criticism (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984) 22
5. H.J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Literature (New York: Dutton, 1960) 145
6. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Literature, 159
7. See H. Najman's insightful article, "Torah of Moses: Pseudonymous Attribution in Second Temple Writings," The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity: Studies in Language and Tradition (ed. C.A. Evans; JSPSup 33; SSEJC 7; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000) 206-16, esp. 214. See also her related articles, "Interpretation as Primordial Writing: Jubilees and Its Authority Conferring Strategies," JSJ 30 (1999) 379-410; and "Angels at Sinai."
8. To say nothing of the view, difficult to prove, that Ezra's lawbook was "the final redaction of the whole Pentateuch"; see R. North, "The Chronicler: 1-2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah," The New Jerome Biblical Commentary (eds R.E. Brown, J.A. Fitzmyer, and R.E. Murphy; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990) 362-98, esp. 395-96
9. North, "The Chronicler," 395
10. Najman, "Torah of Moses," 212 (emphasis in the original)
11. Najman, "Torah of Moses," 208-9
12. Najman, "Torah of Moses," 210
13. Najman, "Torah of Moses," 214
14. J.J. Collins, Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993) 36. See his précis of the history of criticism regarding the composition of the book and his resulting view in pp. 24-38
15. Collins, Daniel, 38
16. D.O. Wenthe, The Old Greek Translation of Daniel 1-6 (University of Notre Dame Ph.D. Dissertation: Notre Dame, IN, 1991)
17. Ulrich, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1999) 69-72
18. and Ulrich, "Daniel, Book of: Hebrew and Aramaic Text," Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (eds L.H. Schiffman and J.C. VanderKam; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 170-74, esp. 171
19. For the editions of 4Q243-245 by J.J. Collins and P.W. Flint, see G. Brooke et al., in consultation with J.C. VanderKam, Qumran Cave 4.XVII: Parabiblical Texts, Part 3 (DJD 22; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
20. G.J. Brooke, "Florilegium," Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 297-98
21. J.M. Allegro with A.A. Anderson, Qumrân Cave 4.1 (4Q158-4Q186) (DJD 5; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968) 54. The NT (Matt. 24:15 // Mark 13:14) and Josephus (Ant. 10:249, 266-67) in the first century CE also viewed Daniel as a prophet
22. P.W. Skehan and A.A. Di Lella, The Wisdom of Ben Sira (AB 39; New York: Doubleday, 1987) 41
23. For details, see Di Lella's judicious discussion in The Wisdom of Ben Sira, 47-49
24. A. Di Lella, "Sirach," The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, 496-509, esp. 497
25. J.C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994) 153
26. For authorizing stategies in Jubilees, see F. García Martínez, "The Heavenly Tablets in the Book of Jubilees," Studies in the Book of Jubilees (eds M. Albani et al.; TSAJ 65; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1997) 243-60
27. VanderKam, "The Putative Author"
28. and Najman, "Interpretation as Primordial Writing."
29. Childs, Introduction, 513