Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Joshua and His Book in Second Temple Jewish Literature -- 2. The Scroll 4Q378 -- 3 The Scroll 4Q379 -- 4 The Scroll 4Q522 -- 5 The Scroll 4Q123 -- 6 The Scroll 5Q9 -- 7 The Scroll Mas 1039-211 -- 8 The Rewritten Joshua Scrolls: One Composition or Several Literary Works? -- 9 The Rewritten Joshua Scrolls in Their Exegetical Context -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Among the unknown Jewish writings that emerged from the caves of Qumran are five scrolls rewriting the Book of Joshua. The present volume offers a detailed analysis of these texts and explores their relationship with each other and other Second Temple Jewish writings concerned with the figure of Joshua. The first full-blown study of this group of scrolls, this book is of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of the Dead Sea scrolls and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation
