How does one explain the sparseness of the Qumran targumic corpus?
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More on the Absence of an Aramaic Bible at Qumran: A Response to Jack Poirier’s “The Qumran Targum of Job as a Window into Second Temple Judaism: A Response to Randall Buth”
I appreciate this opportunity to return to some issues concerning the Targum of Job that I raised in Where Is the Aramaic Bible at Qumran? Scripture Use in the Land of Israel and to evaluate Jack Poirier’s response entitled, The Qumran Targum of Job as a Window into Second Temple Judaism: A Response to Randall Buth.
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Where Is the Aramaic Bible at Qumran? Scripture Use in the Land of Israel
The documents at Qumran allow us to reconstruct Scripture access in the Province of Judea in the first century. From the evidence, we must assume that the Qumran community and the other Jewish communities in the land had direct access to the Hebrew Bible, generally understood it, and were interested in teaching that related directly to the Hebrew text.
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Jesus, the Master Teacher: Part Five: “Your Money or Your Life!”
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Jesus, the Master Teacher: Part Four: “Binding and Loosing: Exercising Your Senses to Discern Good and Evil”
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Jesus, the Master Teacher: Part Three: “The Message of the Vineyard”
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Jesus, the Master Teacher: Part Two: “The Rabbinic Technique of Gezera Shavah” and “Peter and the Rock”
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Jesus, the Master Teacher: Part One: “Learning to Read Between the Lines: ‘What Be Commandment Big in the Law?’”
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The Angel Who Has Delivered Me from All Harm
Dr. Horst Krüger, Jerusalem Perspective’s representative in Germany, has suggested to me that Genesis 48:16 may be part of the background to a phrase found in the Lord’s Prayer. I believe that Dr. Krüger has made an important discovery.
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Deliver Us From Evil
Just as good poetry can convey multiple allusions, so “Deliver us from evil” can carry a variety of notions of protection from doing and experiencing evil.
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