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Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

The Hermeneutical Worlds of the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and the Letter to the Romans

  • Paperback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

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This volume applies a rhetorical-discourse method to the Yahadic manuscripts and Romans to show how community leaders uniquely determined specific hermeneutical rules, axioms, and paradigms for their communities. Stark examines the Yahadic texts using Thomas Kuhn's arguments about scientific paradigms and their shifts as a framework for considering the patterns through which Paul and the Yahad interpret their scriptures. Stark outlines the three ways in which the Teacher determined the perspective from which the Yahad approached its scriptures. Following this, he analyses the Romans and the three thematic ways that Jesus determined the perspective from which Paul approached his scriptures. Despite strong similarities between them, the paradigms under which the Yahad and Paul operated moved them to fundamentally different understanding of the kinds of faithfulness they should exhibit towards those whom they received as Yahweh's appointed agents. The Yahad understood faithfulness to the Teacher within the context of Torah, but Paul understood the Torah within the context of Abraham-style faithfulness to Jesus.
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Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic RevolutionsSacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

  • Title

    Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

  • Author

    J. David Stark

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    June 2015

  • Weight

    368g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780567664228

  • ISBN-10

    0567664228

  • Eden Code

    4317291

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