Scriptures and Sectarianism

Name: Scriptures and Sectarianism | Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls

John J. Collins(Autor*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im September 2014

XIV, 329 Seiten

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Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Introduction. What Have We Learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The origin of the collection
The Scrolls and the Bible
The phenomenon of re-written scriptures
A biblical canon?
The Scrolls and Judaism
The Scrolls and Christianity
Conclusion
Part One: Scripture and Interpretation
Chapter Two. The Transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism
The transformation of Torah
Ancestral law in the Hellenistic period
Antiochus Epiphanes
The Temple Scroll and Jubilees
Halakah and Sectarianism
Chapter Three. Changing Scripture
The case of Deuteronomy
The second century BCE
Rewritten Scriptures
Jubilees
The Temple Scroll
The question of fraud
Chapter Four. Tradition and Innovation in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The nature of the Scrolls collection
The sectarian ideology
Pseudepigrapha in the Scrolls
The Torah re-written
The sectarian view of revelation
The role of the Teacher
An oral tradition?
A distinctive view of tradition
Scripture and interpretation
Conclusion
Chapter Five. The Interpretation of Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The earliest interpretations
Ben Sira
Wisdom texts in the Scrolls
4QInstruction
The Instruction on the Two Spirits
Conclusion
Chapter Six. The Interpretation of Psalm 2
The relation between 2 Samuel 7 and Psalm 2 in 4Q174
The messianic interpretation of Psalm 2
Psalm 2 in the Pseudepigrapha
The Psalms of Solomon
The Similitudes of Enoch
4 Ezra 13
The Scrolls
The Florilegium again
Chapter Seven. The Book of Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Explicit citations
Allusions to Daniel in sectarian literature
Texts related to Daniel
The Prayer of Nabonidus (4QPrNab)
The Pseudo-Daniel texts
The Aramaic Apocalypse
The Four Kingdoms Text
Conclusion
Part Two: History and Sectarianism
Chapter Eight. Historiography in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Apocalyptic Historiography
The Pesharim
Historiographical texts among the Scrolls
The so-called "annalistic lists"
Conclusion
Chapter Nine. Reading for History in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Damascus Document
The Hodayot
The Pesharim
Conclusion
Chapter Ten. "Enochic Judaism" and the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Essenes
The Hasidim
A split in the emerging movement
"The Qumran Community"
The Essenes revisited
Enochic Judaism and the Scrolls
Conclusion
Chapter Eleven. Sectarian Consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The yahad
Creation and Election
4QInstruction
Part Three: The Sectarian Worldview
Chapter Twelve. Covenant and Dualism in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Covenantal Nomism
A sectarian covenant?
The Two Spirits
Persian dualism
The provenance of the Instruction
Covenant and dualism
Chapter Thirteen. The Angelic Life
Angelic afterlife
Angelic afterlife in the Scrolls
Fellowship with the angels in this life
The Yahad
The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Personal transformation
Permanent or temporary transformation
Resurrection and transformation
Chapter Fourteen. The Essenes and the Afterlife
Josephus and Hippolytus
Essene eschatology according to Josephus
Does Josephus reflect a Semitic belief?
The evidence of the rule books
Hippolytus and the Scrolls
Conclusion
Chapter Fifteen. Prayer and the Meaning of Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Meaninglessness of Ritual?
Prayer in Dead Sea Scrolls
Discourse and ritual in covenant renewal
Confession and ablution
Conclusion
Chapter Sixteen. The Eschatologizing of Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The eschatology of 4QInstruction
Engraved is the ordinance
An inheritance of glory
Wisdom and Eschatology
The derivation of eschatological wisdom
4QInstruction and the Dead Sea sect
Epilogue
Chapter Seventeen. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. The Case of the Suffering Servant
The Essenes and the New Testament
A foretaste of Christianity?
Debate renewed in the 1990's
The "suffering servant"
The servant in the Hodayot
The Self-Exaltation Hymn
4Q541
Servant and messiah?
The Servant and Jesus
A common scripture
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Names and Sobriquets
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources

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