Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period

Pieter B. (Bärry) Hartog, Ph.D. (2015), KU Leuven, is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Protestant Theological University in Groningen. His research concentrates on ancient Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of the Graeco-Roman world.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Pesher in Context2 A Glocal Perspective3 Definitions4 Outline of This Book2 The Hypomnemata and the Pesharim as Expressions of Intellectual Culture1 Scribes and Scholars2 The Hypomnemata and Intellectual Life in Hellenistic-Roman Egypt3 The Pesharim and Intellectual Life in Hellenistic-Roman Palestine4 Commentaries as Scholarly Literature5 Conclusion3 Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Hypomnemata1 “Ammonius, son of Ammonius”2 Dimensions3 Corrections and Abbreviations4 Signs5 Sense Dividers6 Conclusion4 Textual Scholarship and the Physicality of the Pesharim1 Dimensions2 Writing Divine Names3 Corrections and Additions4 Signs5 Sense Dividers6 Conclusion5 A Bi-Fold Structure1 The Rhetoric of Commentary2 Structural Variety3 Conclusion6 Structure and Scholarship in the Hypomnemata1 Lemmata: Selection and Presentation2 Interpretation Sections: Contents and Structure3 The Hypomnemata as Literary Unities4 Conclusion7 Structure and Interpretation in the Pesharim1 Lemmata: Selection and Presentation2 Interpretation Sections: Contents and Structure3 Blurred Boundaries4 The Pesharim as Literary Unities5 Conclusion8 Describing Hermeneutics1 A Quest for Categories2 The Categories of This Study3 “Etymology”9 A Hermeneutical Profile of the Hypomnemata1 Perspectivisation2 Normativity3 Analogy4 Structure5 Single Words6 Conclusion10 A Hermeneutical Profile of the Pesharim1 Perspectivisation2 Application3 Application and Normativity4 Analogy5 Structure6 Single Words7 ConclusionConclusion. Pesher and HypomnemaBibliographyIndex