By Merold Westphal
During this quantity, popular thinker Merold Westphal introduces present philosophical pondering with regards to studying the Bible. spotting that no theology is totally freed from philosophical "contamination," he engages and mines modern hermeneutical idea in provider of the church. After supplying a ancient evaluation of up to date theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses postmodern hermeneutical concept, arguing that the relativity embraced there's not kind of like the relativism during which "anything goes." quite, Westphal encourages us to include the proliferation of interpretations in keeping with various views in an effort to get on the richness of the biblical textual content.
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Several Protestant scholars were also recruited at this time. From England came John Allegro and John Strugnell. Allegro had served in the British navy during the war, after which he studied first at Manchester and then at Oxford. He was nominated to the Scrolls team by his Oxford professor, G. R. Driver. Driver also nominated Strugnell, who was only twenty-four when he set out for Jerusalem in 1954. Both Allegro and Strugnell will figure prominently in later chapters, for different reasons. Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, the sole German representative, was not trained in epigraphy and paleography, and eventually withThe Discovery of the Scrolls 17 drew from the team.
For the present, it will be well to reflect on the nature of this huge corpus of manuscripts that had unexpectedly come to light in the decade 1946–1956. A Library in the Wilderness? The contents of this corpus were diverse. Every book of the Hebrew Bible except Esther was represented. ) Fragments of previously known non20 Chapter 1 canonical books, such as 1 Enoch and Jubilees, were discovered. Some texts were clearly sectarian, most obviously the rule books (the so-called Manual of Discipline or Community Rule and the Damascus Document) but also other texts such as the Pesharim, which were commentaries that related the prophetic books to the history of sect, the Hodayot or Thanksgiving Hymns, and the War Scroll.
By the mid-1950s, detailed analyses had begun to appear, based mainly on the texts that were available by 1950. These texts were well preserved, easy to read, and promptly published. The trove of fragments recovered from Cave 4, however, was an entirely different matter. Here was a huge quantity of fragments, in an advanced state of decay. In the words of Frank Moore Cross, who was involved in the editorial process from an early point: “Many fragments are so brittle or friable that they can scarcely even be touched with a camel’s-hair brush.