The Social Role of Liturgy in the Religion of the Qumran Community.

This volume investigates the layers of meaning of the Qumran community's liturgical practice as prayer (communication with the divine), ritual (actions that establish and reinforce the social and ideological structures of the community), and speech (containing both verbal and non-verbal communi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BRILL 2005.
Temas:
Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls
586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Qumran community.
Judaism > Liturgy.
Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
Communauté de Qumrān.
Judaïsme > Liturgie.
Judaïsme > Histoire > 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
Judaism > Liturgy
Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism)
Qumran community
Electronic resource.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE LEVELS OF MEANINGS OF LITURGY
  • 2. PROVENANCE OF QUMRAN LITURGICAL TEXTS
  • 2.1. Orthography and Language
  • 2.2. Terminology
  • 2.3. Formal Characteristics
  • 2.4. Rhetorical Polemic
  • 2.5. Problems in Determining Provenance of Liturgy and Prayer
  • 3. LITURGICAL USE OF A TEXT
  • 4. PLAN FOR THIS STUDY
  • CHAPTER ONE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
  • 1. GROUP IDENTITY
  • 1.1. Self-designations
  • 1.2. Women
  • 1.3. Corporate Identity and Hierarchy
  • 2. GRID OF IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES
  • 2.1. Righteousness and Holiness
  • 2.2. Calendar
  • 2.3. Proper Speech
  • 3. SUMMARY
  • CHAPTER TWO RITES OF PASSAGE
  • 1. INITIATION AND COVENANT RENEWAL CEREMONY
  • 1.1. Preparation
  • 1.2. Entrance of New Initiates (1QS 1:16-2
  • 1.3. Blessings and Curses (1QS 2:1-18)
  • 1.4. Entrance into the Serekh (1QS 2:19-25)
  • 1.5. Purification and Instruction (1QS 2:25-4
  • 1.6. Rebuke and Dismissal
  • 2. SUMMARY
  • CHAPTER THREE FEASTS AND FASTS
  • 1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR COMMUNAL MEALS AT QUMRAN
  • 1.1. Dining Rooms
  • 1.2. Animal Remains
  • 2. TEXTS ABOUT MEALS
  • 2.2. 1QSa 2:17-22
  • 2.3. Tohorat HaRabim
  • 2.4. Was there Grace after Meals?
  • 3. LITURGICAL CONTEXT
  • 4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEAL
  • 5. SUMMARY
  • 6. EXCURSUS: THE ROLE OF FASTING AT QUMRAN
  • CHAPTER FOUR CALENDRICAL RITES
  • 1. CALENDAR TEXTS
  • 2. EVIDENCE FOR CALENDRICAL RITUALS
  • 3. ARTIFACTS RELEVANT TO CALENDRICAL RITES
  • 3.1. Sundial
  • 3.2. Tefillin
  • 4. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO DAILY RITES
  • 4.1. Daily Prayers (4Q503)
  • 4.2. Words of the Luminaries (4Q504, 4Q506)
  • 4.3. 4Q408 8211; Liturgy on Morning and Evening Prayer
  • 4.4. Summary of Daily Rites
  • 5. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO SABBATH RITES
  • 5.1. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (4Q400-407; 11Q17; Mas1k)
  • 6. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO FESTIVAL RITES
  • 6.1. Festival Prayers (4Q507, 4Q508, 4Q509 + 4Q505)
  • 6.2. Times for Praising God (4Q409)
  • 7. MONTHLY RITES
  • 8. SUMMARY
  • CHAPTER FIVE RITES OF AFFLICTION
  • 1. CURSES
  • 1.1. 1QS 2:4-18
  • 1.2. 4QBera (4Q286) frg. 7
  • 1.3. Curses (4Q280) frg. 2
  • 1.4. Significance of Curses
  • 2. APOTROPAIC PRAYERS AND INCANTATIONS
  • 2.1. Apotropaic Prayers
  • 2.2. Incantations
  • 3. PURIFICATION RITES
  • 3.1. Tohorot (4Q274-278; 4Q514)
  • 3.2. Ritual of Purification (4Q512, 4Q414)
  • 3.3. Purification Liturgy (4Q284)
  • 4. SUMMARY
  • CHAPTER SIX POLITICAL RITES
  • 1. RANKING THE MEMBERS
  • 2. DISCIPLINE
  • 3. AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD
  • 3.1. Liturgy of the Tongues of Fire (4Q375, 4Q376, 1Q29)
  • 3.2. The War Scroll (1QM, 4Q491-496)
  • 3.3. Benedictions (1QSb)
  • 4. SUMMARY
  • CHAPTER SEVEN RITES OF COMMUNION
  • 1. HODAYOT
  • 1.1. Liturgical Context
  • 1.2. The Hodayot as Rites of Communion
  • 2. PSALMS
  • 2.1. Communion Elements in 11QPs
  • 3. 4Q380-4Q381
  • 4. BARKHI NAFSHI
  • 5. SUMMARY
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES.

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