What is it about?
Among the Dead Sea Scrolls a book partly survived that re-tells the stories about the biblical persons in the book of Genesis. Closer study reveals that the author of this ancient book wanted to answer questions that were left open by the biblical stories. Sometimes the author tries to justify the sometimes questionable behavior of those persons in the Bible. Interestingly, the author lets his heroes speak in first person account!
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The article shows how Jewish communities BCE were interested in the biblical stories and how they tried to find answers for their remaining curiosity.
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This page is a summary of: Rehabilitating the Heroes: Exegetical Exoneration of Biblical Protagonists in the Genesis Apocryphon, May 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004696716_014.
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