| Aramaic Poetry in Qumran Contributor(s): Lee Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 3639763572 ISBN-13: 9783639763577 Publisher: Scholars' Press OUR PRICE: $117.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Biography - General |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6" W x 9" (1.31 lbs) 408 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The often fragmentary Aramaic texts preserved by the Qumran community represent a large collection of well edited texts, whose publications have triggered numerous contributions that have brought a significantly clearer understanding of them. Little attention, however, has been devoted to the poetic structure of these Aramaic texts, much less on Aramaic literature as a whole. This study presents a model for the analysis of Aramaic poetry as well as a detailed poetic discussion of six Aramaic texts within the Qumran collection. These texts are: 1) 4Q246, "The Son of God" text; 2) 4QLevia, a portion of the wisdom poem in the Aramaic Levi Document; 3) 4Q534, "The Elect of God" text; 4) 4Q542, The Testament of Qahat; 5) 4Q541, two fragments from the Apocryphon of Levi; 6) 1QapGen, the beauty of Sarai in the Genesis Apocryphon. |