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Monday, November 06, 2023

Review of Fraade, The Damascus Document (Oxford Commentary)

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Damascus Document, Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls (Tianruo Jiang).
Fraade, Steven D. The Damascus Document, Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

... Fraade’s balanced and succinct style of commentary is congruous with the mission of the Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls series— “to provide scholarship of the highest level that is accessible to non-specialists.” The commentary is a product of and testament to the author’s meticulous use of the comparative method and will surely contribute to conversations between scholars of Scrolls and specialists in cognate fields.

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