Studies in Ancient Midrash
James L. Kugel
Preface
Chapter 1
Ancient Biblical Interpretation and the Biblical Sage
James L. Kugel
Chapter 2
Literacy and the Polemics Surrounding
Biblical Interpretation in the Second Temple Period
A.I. Baumgarten
Chapter 3
"Leave the Dead to Bury Their Own Dead"
Menahem Kister
Chapter 4
Contours of Genesis Interpretation at Qumran:
Contents, Context, and Nomenclature
Moshe J. Bernstein
Chapter 5
Quoelet's Reception and Interpretation
in early Rabbinic Literature
Marc Hirshiman
Chapter 6
The Garments of Skin in Apocryphal
Narrative and Biblical Commentary
Gary A. Anderson
Chapter 7
Laws, Morality, and Rhetoric in Some Saying of Jesus
Menahem Kirster
Chapter 8
Some Instances of Biblical Interpretation
In the Hymns and Wisdom Writings of Qumran
James L. Kugel
Index
James L. Kugel is a Professor at Bar-Ilan University.