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The topics include approaches to biblical interpretation in The Dead Sea Scrolls by modern interpreters, the dream visions in the Noah story of the Genesis Apocryphon and related texts, geography and ideology in the Copper Scroll (3Q15), scribal exegesis, metaphorical familial language, a methodological critique of the reconstruction of 4QMMT, and Josephus on Judas the Galilean and the Essenes.
Central to King's account is the interplay between scribal and print culture and its self-conscious exploitation by Foxe who, recognizing that the manuscript transcription and transmission of martyrological accounts lent authenticity to his printed narrative, took care to include the dramatic circumstances of their composition, circulation, and survival.
The process of etching, with its hunched, almost scribal exertions, seems to draw Chagall closer to the biblical text than any other media, and his Bible Series--begun in the 1930s as a commission from Ambroise Vollard and completed in 1957--reveal an artist who intuitively senses the most private fears, dilemmas and joys of the characters in the Old Testament.
 
 
 
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