The Qumran Rule texts in context : collected studies /

Hauptbeschreibung Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls the Community Rule has been at the forefront of the scholarly imagination and is often considered a direct channel to life on the ground at Khirbet Qumran - an ancient version of 'reality television'. After the full publica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hempel, Charlotte
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2013.
Series:Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 154.
Subjects:
Dead Sea scrolls > History and criticism.
Dead Sea scrolls
Qumran community.
Dead Sea scrolls > History and criticism.
Communauté de Qumrān.
Qumran community
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The nature of the communities
  • Beginnings
  • The teacher : from John Wayne to the wizard of Oz
  • Looking for beginnings in unexpected places
  • The community rule traditions
  • Close encounters : the community rule and the Damascus document
  • Rules in the context of wisdom and law
  • Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond
  • The scrolls and the emerging scriptures
  • Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered
  • Concluding reflections
  • The nature of the communities
  • Community structures and organization
  • Introduction
  • Admission process
  • Organization
  • Property
  • Meetings
  • Leadership and authority structures
  • Communal meals
  • Family life and celibacy
  • Disciplinary and judicial procedures
  • Conclusion
  • The Damascus document and 1 QSa
  • Introduction
  • 1 QSa 1:6-2:11 a and its present context
  • I QSa 1:6-2:11 a and the laws of the Damascus document
  • 'All-israel' terminology
  • Family life
  • ... terminology
  • The book of Hagi
  • Exclusion from the congregation
  • Conclusion
  • Beginnings
  • The Damascus document and community origins
  • Introduction
  • Discussion of the texts
  • CD 1:3-11 a : a first account of community origins in the Damascus document
  • CD 2:8b-13 : a second account of community origins in the Damascus document
  • CD 3:12b-4:12a : a third account of community origins in the Damascus document
  • CD 5:20-6:1 la : a fourth account of community origins in the Damascus document
  • Analysis of all four accounts of community origins in the Damascus document
  • Emerging communities in the Serekh
  • Introduction
  • The evidence of the S manuscripts
  • Emerging communal life in 1QS 6
  • An emerging community ideology in 1QS 8
  • Expiation restricted to the community (1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) and 4Q258 (4QSd))
  • The evidence of 4Q265
  • The evidence of the Damascus document
  • Conclusions and outlook
  • Small beginnings or geographical diversity
  • Introduction
  • Texts, communities, and the site of Qumran
  • Yahạd(s) before and outside of Qumran
  • 1QS 6:1c-8a : the under-studied enters the limelight
  • CD 13:2b-3a : a council-free version of 1QS 6:3
  • Conclusion
  • The community rule traditions
  • Shifting paradigms concerning the literary development of the Serekh
  • Introduction and history of research
  • Continuity alongside difference between 1QS and 4QS
  • Diversity within 4Q258 (4QSd)
  • The many in 1QS
  • The council of the community in S
  • Conclusion
  • Close encounters : The community rule and the Damascus document
  • CD 19-20 and the community rule
  • Introduction
  • CD 20:1-8 and the community rule
  • The texts (CD 20:lb-8a and 1QS 8:16b-9:2; 9:8-11a//4Q258 (4QSd) 6 8b.11-12; 7 1-3.7-9)
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Rewritten rule texts
  • Introduction
  • Points of contact between S and D
  • The penal code
  • Gatherings of ten
  • Admission into the community by swearing an oath
  • Maskil headings
  • The self designation "the people of perfect holiness"
  • Liturgical framework
  • Analysis and conclusions
  • Rules in the context of wisdom and law
  • The rule books and the Qumran wisdom texts
  • Introduction
  • The questions
  • Three Qumran sapiential works
  • The book of mysteries
  • Instruction
  • 4Qways of righteousness
  • Wisdom elements in the rule books
  • Raz Nihyeh
  • The book of Hagi
  • The Maskil
  • Maskil in instruction
  • Maskil in 4Qways of righteousness
  • Maskil in the Damascus document
  • Maskil in the community rule
  • Maskil in 4Q298 (address of the Maskil to the sons of Dawn)
  • Conclusion.
  • The Damascus document and MMT
  • Introduction
  • 4QMMT and communal legislation in the Damascus document (d)
  • 4QMMT and halakhah in D
  • General observations
  • Specific texts
  • The 4QD material on the disqualification of priests
  • The 4QD material on skin disease, flux and childbirth
  • 4QD Halakhah dealing with agricultural matters
  • Texts expressing concern about defilement through contact with gentiles
  • The catalogue of transgressions in 4Q270 (4QDe)
  • Conclusion
  • The Damascus document and 4QOrdinancesa (4Q159)
  • Introduction
  • Shared content
  • Correspondences in matters of sequence
  • Shared scriptural basis
  • Shared formal features
  • Conclusion
  • Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond
  • The sons of Aaron
  • Introduction
  • The Damascus document (d)
  • The community rule (s)
  • 4Q286 berakhot a
  • 4Q279 (4Qfour lots; olim 4QTohorot D)
  • 4Q265 miscellaneous rules olim Serekh Damascus
  • The rule of the congregation
  • The war scroll (M)
  • 4QMMT
  • Temple scroll
  • 4Q174 Florilegium
  • 4Q390 Apocryphon of Jeremiah Ce
  • 4Q513 ordinances b
  • Conclusion
  • Consider ourselves in charge : self-assertion sons of Zadok Style
  • Introduction
  • The Damascus document
  • The community rule
  • The rule of the congregation
  • The rule of blessings
  • 4Qpesher Isaiah c
  • 4QFlorilegium
  • Conclusion
  • The scrolls and the emerging scriptures
  • The community rule and the book of Daniel
  • Setting the scene
  • A shared bilingual Milieu
  • The book of Daniel and the scrolls as tradents of Danielic traditions
  • A claim to exilic roots
  • A learned scribal context
  • The significance of mystery and interpretation
  • Consciousness of proximity with the Angelic realm
  • The Maskilim in Daniel 11-12
  • Maskil and Rabbim in the community rule
  • The restored title of the rule of the community
  • The introduction to the teaching on the two spirits 1QS 3:13-4:26
  • The introduction to 1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) 9//4Q258 (4QSd) I
  • The statutes for the Maskil 1QS 9:12-25//4Q256 (4QSb) 18:1-7// 4Q258 (4QSd) 8:1-9//4Q259 (4QSe) 3:6-4:8//4Q260 (4QSf) 1:1-2
  • Conclusion
  • The Damascus document and Ezra-Nehemiah
  • Introduction
  • Ezra-Nehemiah and the Damascus document : some common ground
  • Location
  • Community
  • Issues
  • Family and household structures in Ezra-Nehemiah and D
  • The authority of the father in arranging marriages according to the Damascus document
  • The overseer encroaches on the father's role
  • A comparative analysis of the stipulations dealing with the arrangement of marriages in the Damascus document
  • Conclusion
  • The Serekh tradition in light of post-Qumran perspectives on the emerging Bible
  • Introduction
  • The literary panorama of the rule manuscripts
  • The authority of changing texts : the emerging Bible and the Serekh
  • The emerging Bible and the S tradition : inconsistencies welcome!
  • A farewell to the End-Serekh
  • Conclusion
  • The emerging Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls : a common Milieu
  • Introduction
  • The scrolls as case studies of the ancient jewish literary craft
  • The scrolls and the emergence of jewish Sectarianism in the persian period
  • The shared scribal Milieu behind the emerging scriptures and the scrolls
  • Tracing trajectories from emerging Sectarianism in the Hebrew Bible to incipient communal life attested in the scrolls
  • The scrolls and recent research on the development of the Psalter
  • A life dedicated to torah scholarship : Ps 1:2, Josh 1:8 and 1QS 6:6b-7a
  • Conclusion
  • Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered
  • 'Haskalah' at Qumran : the eclectic character of Qumran cave 4
  • Introduction
  • The Qumran scroll caves
  • Qumran cave 4
  • The profile of the Caves
  • Distinctive elements in the profile of Qumran Cave 4
  • Texts written in Cryptic Script
  • The Maskil and Cave 4
  • Technical learning : the calendar texts
  • Multiple attestation
  • 4Q477 : the overseer's bookkeeping
  • The 'workaday quality'of a number of Cave 4 texts
  • 4Q265 miscellaneous rules
  • Anthologies and compilations
  • Raw data
  • Serekh and refinement in Cave 1
  • A preponderance of Papyrus in Cave 4 over against Caves 1 and 11
  • Conclusion
  • Cumulative bibliography
  • Index of references
  • Index of modern authors.

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