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‘Biblicizing’: Community at Qumran kept different versions…

‘Biblicizing’: Community at Qumran kept different versions of books now considered canonical but also an array of other documents which sought to explicate those scrolls and other documents as having a strong community application. It has been argued that these documents used a deliberately ‘biblicizing style’ of Hebrew which would suggest that this community desired to show some sort of continuity with the Hebrew texts that had come down to them.

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