Authoritative literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Discoveries

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 382-402

  Vanderkam, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 61949412849     PISSN: 09290761     EISSN: 15685179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156851798X00190     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. For the numbers of copies, see J.C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994) 30-31
2. E. Cook in M. Wise, M. Abegg, and E. Cook (eds), The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1996) 114
3. J. Fitzmyer, "The use of explicit Old Testament quotations in Qumran literature and in the New Testament," NTS 7 (1960-61)
4. B.S. Childs, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1979) 50
5. For warnings against using the term canon for earlier times, see also J. Maier, "Zur Frage des biblischen Kanons im Frühjudentum im Licht der Qumranfunde," Jahrbuch für Biblische Theologie 3 (1988) 137-38
6. That is, in this calendar no other festival falls on a sabbath, other than one day in each of the two week-long celebrations (the festivals of Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) where the overlap was unavoidable and divinely mandated. On the fact that the festival of Purim would fall on a sabbath in the 364-day calendar, see R. Beckwith, The Old Testament Canon of the New Testament Church and Its Background in Early Judaism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985) 291-94
7. J. Barton, "The Significance of a Fixed Canon of the Hebrew Bible," Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation 1/1 (ed. M. Saebø; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996) 76
8. See Carr, "Canonization," 41-42 for the influence of context on the references in 4QMMT and in Luke
9. There have been several studies on this topic. See most recently M.J. Bernstein, "Introductory Formulas for Citation and Re-citation of Biblical Verses in the Qumran Pesharim," DSD 1 (1994) 30-70. Bernstein also reviews earlier studies of the formulas
10. See Carr, "Canonization," 38-39 for references to the Law and Prophets in Qumran texts and other second-temple works
11. For the somewhat different uses to which the and formulas are put in the pesharim, see M. Horgan, Pesharim: Qumran Interpretations of Biblical Books (CBQMS 8; Washington, DC: CBA of America, 1979) 243
12. For a survey of the various Qumran works that interpret Genesis (and other parts of the Pentateuch), see M. Bernstein, "Pentateuchal Interpretation at Qumran," The Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years, 128-59
13. and J.C. VanderKam and J.T. Milik, "Jubilees" Qumran Cave 4.VIII: Parabiblical Texts Part 1 (DJD 13; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994) 1-140
14. Milik, The Books of Enoch, 256
15. Cf. R. Cowley, "The Biblical Canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church today," Ostkirchliche Studien 23 (1974) 318-23