Julio Trebolle Barrera – författare

This volume contains a collection of compositions from Cave 4 at Qumran, written during the Second Temple period and linked to biblical texts through characters, themes, or genre. Some of these, such as the Levi Aramaic Document, Testament of Naphtali, and Prayer of Nabonidus, were known previously from Greek and Aramaic manuscripts of the Apocrypha. The additional documents include PseudoDaniel, the Commentaries on Genesis, Commentary on Malachi, Apocryphon of Joshua, The Two Ways, Apocryphon of Elisha, Prayer of Mercy, and a number of small miscellaneous texts. All these documents greatly enhance our understanding of the phenomenon of psuedepigraphy (written in the name of a famous biblical or religious character) and of biblical interpretation during the Second Temple period.

La edición de la Biblia hebrea que nos ha llegado no era la única existente. Los manuscritos del Mar Muerto y la investigación reciente sobre la Biblia griega revelan que los libros bíblicos circulaban en diferentes ediciones hasta que prevaleció la más reconocida en los años en torno al cambio de era. Este libro reconstruye el proceso de edición y traducción de la Biblia hebrea en las épocas helenística y romana. Desarrolla un proceder metodológico que permite rastrear los restos de ediciones marginadas que han pervivido en la Biblia griega y han reaparecido en los manuscritos de Qumrán. El libro de los Reyes es el mejor campo de pruebas para esta investigación dada su variada y compleja historia editorial. La Biblia hebrea surgió en Babilonia y en Jerusalén, pero se hizo griega en Alejandría y en Antioquía de Siria. La pluralidad de textos en hebreo y griego obliga a replantear cuestiones que han marcado durante siglos la identidad y las fronteras entre el judaísmo y el cristianismo, y entre católicos, protestantes y ortodoxos orientales. El panorama textual aquí desarrollado plantea nuevos retos tanto a la investigación histórico-crítica como a la exégesis canónica y midrásica. Este libro presenta el estado actual de la investigación y sintetiza los trabajos realizados por el autor a lo largo de cinco décadas.

El estudio de la Biblia avanza hoy por sus márgenes, por campos de estudio que contribuyen a reconocer los infinitos sentidos de las Escrituras: los originarios de los libros bíblicos, los desarrollados en la exégesis judía, cristiana e islámica, los desplegados en la cultura y las artes a lo largo de los siglos y los de las múltiples interpretaciones propuestas desde perspectivas actuales. En La Biblia desde los márgenes se tratan temas como los manuscritos de Qumrán, las identidades judía y cristiana, el trasvase de tradiciones cristianas al islam o las conexiones entre Ley, Sabiduría, apocalíptica y mística, y también se desarrollan ejercicios de exégesis y de lectura de la Biblia a partir de recreaciones literarias contemporáneas.

This wide-ranging handbook presents an overview of our current knowledge on the history of the Bible. Divided into three parts, it shows how the collections of canonical and apocryphal books were formed, explains the transmission and translation of the Biblical texts and describes biblical interpretation in Judaism and Christianity. Incorporating the immense amount of information that has become available since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the author sets out to bridge the gaps between widely different areas and trends in the field of Biblical Studies: canonical and apocryphal literature, written and oral traditions, rabbinic and Christian exegesis and modern critical exegesis, and literal and allegorical interpretation, among others. Uniquely, Trebolle Barrera also looks at the Wirkungsgeschichte of the Bible in relation to the Greek and Roman world, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Scholars, students and interested lay persons alike will benefit from the wealth of general information found here as well as detailed discussion on many topics currently under debate, from the significance of Qumran to the influence of the Semitic and Greek world on Christianity.

The material presented in these two volumes may be divided into two main sections. The first section covers biblical texts and texts which fall between the categories biblical and non-biblical. It also includes articles on topics relating to the history of the Qumran community and to the study of the New Testament in the light of the Qumran discoveries. The second section covers non-biblical texts, such as the Temple Scroll. The two sections are synthesized in the article by Frank M. Cross, in which he reviews the advances made and the challenges for the future in the field of Qumran studies.Several topics recur constantly in many of the articles, such as the origins of the history of the Qumran community, the problem of the distinction between what is biblical and non-biblical in the Qumran manuscripts, and the question of the authority of the texts in the Qumran community.

This book, written jointly by two distinguished Qumran scholars, attempts to provide answers to some important questions that have been discussed recently in media reports on the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as: have certain manuscripts been suppressed?; do the manuscripts question substantial aspects of the Jewish and Christian traditions?; do the roots of Early Christianity derive from the Essene movement?; and more.This volume offers solid and up-to-date information on the literary heritage, the social organization and the religious beliefs of the Qumran community and its links with Early Christianity. It gives the reader an opportunity to look behind the scenes of the research of the Dead Sea texts and the ongoing scholarly debate on the origins of the Essene movement and the Qumran sect.