Noah Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls : Conversations and Controversies of Antiquity

Mostly keeping his clothes on, Noah wanders through many genres written over many centuries, says Peters (religious studies, Trinity Western U.), and he seems to have been a more ambiguous ancestor for Second Temple Jews than had been imagined before the Dead Sea Scrolls came to light. She investigates how and to what extent Noah is portrayed as an archetype for a particular interpretation of being Jewish, what God revealed to him and how, and the extent to which he is claimed as a distinctly Jewish ancestor or as an ancestor common to both Jews and Gentiles. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation 2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)