The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28-30 May, 2013
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38422-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 127, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

The Dead Sea Scrolls offer a window onto the rich theological landscape of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Through careful textual analysis, the authors of these twelve studies explore such topics as dualism and determinism, esoteric knowledge, eschatology and covenant, the nature of heaven and / or the divine, moral agency, and more; as well as connections between concepts expressed in the Qumran corpus and in later Jewish and Christian literature. The religious worldviews reflected in the Scrolls constitute part of the ideological environment of Second Temple Judaism; the analysis of these texts is essential for the reconstruction of that milieu. Taken together, these studies indicate the breadth and depth of theological reflection in the Second Temple period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clements, Ruth A

Kister, Menahem

Segal, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface VII

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

An Investigation into the Continuity between Biblical Literature and the Scrolls

Jonathan Ben-Dov

Theologies in Tension in the Dead Sea Scrolls

John J. Collins

Concealing and Revealing in the Ideology of the Qumran Community

Devorah Dimant

Between Divine Justice and Doxology: Images of Heaven in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Beate Ego

The Notion of the Spirit in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Texts of the Early Jesus Movement

Jörg Frey

Qumran, Jubilees, and the Jewish Dimensions of 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1

Menahem Kister

The Divine Name in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in New Testament Writings

Hermann Lichtenberger

God, Gods, and Godhead in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

Noam Mizrahi

Predeterminism and Moral Agency in the Hodayot

Carol A. Newsom

Interpreting History in Qumran Texts

Michael Segal

Eschatology and the Sacred Past in Serekh ha-Milhamah

Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Two Creations for One Nation: Apocalyptic Worldviews in Jubilees and Qumran Writings

Cana Werman

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School, is Head of Publications for the Orion Center and coeditor of New Approaches to the Study of Biblical Interpretation in Judaism of the Second Temple Period and in Early Christianity.

Menahem Kister, Ph.D (1994), Hebrew University, is Professor in the Hebrew University Departments of Bible and Talmud. He has published widely on the Dead Sea Scrolls and related texts and is the editor of The Qumran Scrolls and Their World.

Michael Segal, Ph.D. (2004), Hebrew University, is Professor in the Hebrew University’s Department of Bible, and Head of the Hebrew University Bible Project. He has authored Dreams, Riddles, and Visions: Textual, Contextual, and Intertextual Approaches to the Book of Daniel.