Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Bruce Mccomiskey PAPERBACK 9780271090160

Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls\nby Bruce Mccomiskey\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bruce Mccomiskey\nTitle: Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press\nPublication year: 2023\nISBN-13: 9780271090160\nISBN-10: 0271090162\nRRP: \u00A330.95\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDiscovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of the rhetoric of these texts illustrates how the Essenes employed different rhetorics over time as they struggled to understand God's word and.