List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Texts, Translations, Notes, and Commentary
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Scholars
Index of Subjects
Steven D. Fraade is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of
Judaism at Yale University in the Department of Religious Studies
and the Program in Judaic Studies. He has held a John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was awarded a
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship for From Tradition to
Commentary. Fraade has published widely in the history of ancient
Judaism, rabbinic literature, multilingualism in antiquity,
scriptural
translation and interpretation, ancient Jewish legal rhetoric, and
the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is the author Enosh and His Generation:
Pre-Israelite Hero and History in Post-Biblical Interpretation
(1984), From Tradition
to Commentary: Torah and its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to
Deuteronomy (1991), and Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and
Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and
Sages (2011). He is the co-editor of Rabbinic Perspectives:
Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls (2006).
What sets this commentary apart is its philosophical
sophistication, adopting a broadly Gadamerian approach to the
question of what a "work" is.
*Adam Booth, C.S.C., Stonehill College, North Easton, MA, Catholic
Books Review*
Scholars in a variety of fields should salute the publication of
Steven Fraade's new commentary on the Damascus Document.
*Lawrence H. Schiffman, Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew
and Judaic Studies, New York University and Director of the Global
Institute for Advanced Research in Jewish Studies.*
A most pleasing volume that demonstrates clarity, erudition and
discernment throughout.
*Siam Bhayro, Journal of Jewish Studies*
The Damascus Document, the second volume in the series, Oxford
Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls (OCDSS), is such a work that
will be helpful to both new readers and experts...Fraade's balanced
and succinct style of commentary is congruous with the mission of
the Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls series- "to provide
scholarship of the highest level that is accessible to
non-specialists." The commentary is a product of and testament to
the author's meticulous use of the comparative method and will
surely contribute to conversations between scholars of Scrolls and
specialists in cognate fields.
*Tianruo Jiang, The Articles*
These brief observations underscore the scholarly value of this
commentary. The author deserves commendation for having concisely
assembled a substantial body of documentation pertaining to the
various manuscripts of the Damascus Document.
*Emile Puech, Revue Biblique*
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