Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity
As
father of all humanity and not exclusively of Israel, Noah was a
problematic ancestor for some Jews in the Second Temple period. His
archetypical portrayals in the Dead Sea Scrolls, differently nuanced in
Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for groups that were
struggling to understand both their distinctive self-identities within
Judaism and their relationship to the nations among whom they lived.
Dually located within a trajectory of early Christian and rabbinic
interpretation of Noah and within the Jewish Hellenistic milieu of the
Second Temple period, this study of the Noah traditions in the Dead Sea
Scrolls illuminates living conversations and controversies among the
people who transmitted them and promises to have implications for
ancient questions and debates that extended considerably beyond the Dead
Sea Scrolls.
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