By Dorothy M. Peters
As father of all humanity and never solely of Israel, Noah was once a frustrating ancestor for a few Jews within the moment Temple interval. His archetypical portrayals within the lifeless Sea Scrolls, otherwise nuanced in Hebrew and Aramaic, embodied the tensions for teams that have been suffering to appreciate either their certain self-identities inside Judaism and their dating to the countries between whom they lived. Dually positioned inside of a trajectory of early Christian and rabbinic interpretation of Noah and in the Jewish Hellenistic milieu of the second one Temple interval, this research of the Noah traditions within the useless Sea Scrolls illuminates residing conversations and controversies one of the those that transmitted them and supplies to have implications for historical questions and debates that prolonged significantly past the lifeless Sea Scrolls.
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