Topics in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Exegesis at Qumran
RELIGION 1221
Subject & Catalog Number
Jointly Offered with:
Faculty of Arts & Sciences as JEWISHST 149,
Harvard Divinity School as HDS 1309
Course Information
Description
This course explores the diverse functions of scripture within the literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls, focusing in particular on the forms and methods of interpretation attested, and considered in light of other varieties of interpretation in early Judaism. Sessions will be devoted to reading, translation and discussion of primary sources in Hebrew, as well as to discussion of relevant secondary literature. The course presumes facility in Biblical Hebrew, as well as the ability to read unpointed Hebrew texts.
Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Jewish Studies 149.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
Department
Religion, The Study of
Course Component
Seminar
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Arts and Humanities
Course Level
Primarily for Graduate Students
