Emerging Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Continuity, Separation, and Conflict
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51711-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 141, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

These essays reflect the lively debate about the sectarian movement of the Scrolls. They debate the degree to which the movement was separated from the rest of Judaism, and whether there was one or several watershed moments in the separation. Notable contributions include a cluster of essays on the Teacher of Righteousness and a thorough survey of the archaeology of Qumran. The texts are problematic in historical research because they rely on biblical stereotypes. Nonetheless, possible interpretations can be compared and degrees of probability debated. The debate is significant not only for the sect but for the nature of ancient Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Collins, John J.

Geyser-Fouché, Ananda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Contributors

1 Emerging Sectarianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Continuity, Separation, and Conflict

Ananda Geyser-Fouché

Part 1: Continuity

2 Sectarian or Not: What Is the Question?

Esther G. Chazon

3 Sectarian and Non-sectarian Literature: What Does It Mean and How Does This Distinction Work Today?

With a Short Case Study on the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

Michael R. Jost

4 The Transmission of Greek Translations in Judea and the Origin of the Qumran Sectarian Movement

Gideon R. Kotzé

5 Unity and Diversity in Qumran Hebrew: Evidence from Quantification

Jacobus A. Naudé and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé

Part 2: Separation

6 Community Formation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Beyond the Watershed Paradigm

Charlotte Hempel

7 The Origins of Sectarian Boundary Marking and the “Shifters of the Boundary”: The Damascus Document and Cultural Memory

Albert Hogeterp

8 4QMMT and D: Reconsidering the Social Context and Early History of the Dead Sea Scrolls Communities

Gareth Wearne

Part 3: Conflict: The Teacher and the Wicked Priest

9 Telling a Qumran Story: Perspectives from the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)

Gert T.M. Prinsloo

10 Identifying the Wicked Priest

Oren Ableman

11 A Fresh Approach to a Vexed Problem

Timothy H. Lim

12 The Teacher of Righteousness Revisited

John J. Collins

13 Look Who’s Talking: Reconsidering the Speaker in the ‘Teacher Hymns’ (1QHa)

Michael B. Johnson

14 The Persona of the Teacher: A Qualified Endorsement of the Teacher Hymn Hypothesis

Christopher S. Atkins

Part 4: Qumran

15 Qumran in the Late Hellenistic Period: An Archaeological Reassessment

Dennis Mizzi

Index of Passages

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Emeritus, Yale. Honorary Professor, Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Biography, and The Invention of Judaism. Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul.

Ananda Geyser-Fouché is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Pretoria. She has published many articles and was the sub-editor of the bundle in HTS Theological Studies: ‘Original Research: Special Collection Qumran Texts’, 2016 and co-editor of Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in Memory of Peter W. Flint, STDJ 130.