Pesher ha-Davar: Commentary Texts in Qumran and the Greek and Hellenistic-Jewish Traditions. KU Leuven
This thesis compares two commentary collections from the Hellenistic-Roman period. The first collection consists of sixteen commentaries on prophetic passages in the Hebrew Bible, which are known as Pesharim (singular: Pesher). The second collection comprises sixteen commentaries on Homer’s Iliad, which are known as hypomnemata (singular: hypomnema).
In the Hellenistic-Roman era, the writing of ...