{"product_id":"the-dead-sea-new-jerusalem-text-contents-and-contexts-9783161487996","title":"The Dead Sea 'New Jerusalem' Text: Contents and Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lorenzo Ditommaso\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mohr Siebeck\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea \u003ci\u003eNew Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo DiTommaso discusses the genre of the \u003ci\u003eNJ\u003c\/i\u003e, the order of its material, and its antecedents and parallels in ancient urban design. He suggests that its New Jerusalem is not a heavenly city and that categories of earthly and heavenly Jerusalems perhaps impose an inappropriate taxonomy on the various ancient Jewish and Christian expressions of the New Jerusalem. The author demonstrates that the \u003ci\u003eNJ\u003c\/i\u003e shares virtually no points of contact with the \u003ci\u003eTemple Scroll\u003c\/i\u003e, and that neither text is likely dependent on the other. He also argues that the New Jerusalem of the \u003ci\u003eNJ\u003c\/i\u003e is neither an eschatological focus of pilgrimage nor a mustering point for the final battle, that the text's eschatological horizon is established by a review of history and anticipates a time when once-hostile nations are humbled, and that it was conceivably composed in the first third of the second century BCE, shortly before the Maccabean revolt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mohr Siebeck","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47892079247511,"sku":"9783161487996","price":14801.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783161487996.webp?v=1781185672","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dead-sea-new-jerusalem-text-contents-and-contexts-9783161487996","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}