Shaping Text Through Song: The Influence of Singing Upon Processes of Textual Interpretation and Variation in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover)

Jonathan M. Darby

ISBN 10: 9004749330 / ISBN 13: 9789004749337

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2025

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Hardcover. This book explores the influential role played by singing as a performative medium within processes of textual interpretation and variation during the late Second Temple Period, as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Singing is argued to be a prominent and widespread mode of performance, and a medium which exerted considerable influence within and upon processes of textual composition, interpretation and transmission. These complex processes result in the variation of textual forms, meaning that sung performance contributed to the widespread pluriformity of textual traditions, including those that were eventually codified in the scriptural canons of Judaism and Christianity. This monograph explores the influential role played by singing as a performative medium within processes of textual interpretation and variation during the late Second Temple Period, as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shaping Text Through Song: The Influence of Singing Upon Processes of Textual Interpretation and Variation in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004749330
• ISBN 13: 9789004749337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This book explores the influential role played by singing as a performative medium within processes of textual interpretation and variation during the late Second Temple Period, as reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Singing is argued to be a prominent and widespread mode of performance, and a medium which exerted considerable influence within and upon processes of textual composition, interpretation and transmission. These complex processes result in the variation of textual forms, meaning that sung performance contributed to the widespread pluriformity of textual traditions, including those that were eventually codified in the scriptural canons of Judaism and Christianity.

About the Author

Jonathan M. Darby, PhD (2023), University of Manchester, is a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester. He has published on psalms, liturgy, textuality, genre and categorisation in the Dead Sea Scrolls.