Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran

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Intro Commentary and Authority in Mesopotamia and Qumran Copyright Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Preliminaries Selection of Corpus Enūma eliš Commentary I Ludlul bēl nēmeqi The Babylonian Theodicy Maqlû, Šurpu, and Tummu bītu Special Conventions Technical Terms Transliteration Conventions Qumran Texts Sigla Mesopotamian Texts Transliterations and Translations A Note on Working with Manuscripts Abbreviations and Citations Qumran Commentaries: A General Description Pesher as Genre Selection of Texts Dating and Palaeography of Manuscripts IsaiahHosea Genesis 49 Number of Pesher Manuscripts in Comparison to Copies of the Base-Text Descriptive Typologies for Commentaries at Qumran Mesopotamian Commentary, Qumran Pesher: A Comparison of Formal Features Commentary in Mesopotamia Historical Origins Commentary Structures Physical Layout Tabular Layout Colon Layout Indent Layout Literary Structure Commentary Styles Technical Vocabulary Hermeneutical Techniques Borrowing Between Commentary Texts Duplicate Commentary Manuscripts Mesopotamian Commentary, Qumran Pesher: Compositional Models The Comparative Study of Mesopotamian Commentary and Qumran PesherAuthority Terminology Scripture and Bible Canon and Canonical Authority and Authoritative Canon and Commentary Mesopotamia Qumran Authority and Commentary Normative Authority Oracular Authority Mytho-Historic Authority Scholarly Authority Degrees and Domains of Authority Roles and Status of Commentaries Conclusion Appendices Transliterations and Translations Qumran Commentaries 1Q Pesher Habakkuk 1Q Pesher Micah (1Q14) 1Q Pesher Zephaniah (1Q15) 1Q Pesher Psalms (1Q16) 3Q Pesher Isaiah* (3Q4)