4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies

4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies
Title 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Wold
Publisher BRILL
Pages 257
Release 2018-06-12
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004364242

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In 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, Benjamin Wold challenges the interpretation of 4QInstruction as a deterministic and dualistic composition. In a re-examination of key fragments he offers new reconstructions and translations that indicate 4QInstruction envisaged wisdom available to all humanity, divisions among humankind and communities as the result of individual adherence to wisdom, and a hierarchy of authority as a result of individual merit.

The Worldly and Heavenly Wisdom of 4QInstruction

The Worldly and Heavenly Wisdom of 4QInstruction
Title The Worldly and Heavenly Wisdom of 4QInstruction PDF eBook
Author Matthew J. Goff
Publisher BRILL
Pages 298
Release 2003-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9789004135918

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This volume is devoted to 4QInstruction, the last lengthy text of the Dead Sea Scrolls to be officially published. The central concern of this study is how it should be understood in relation to the sapiential and apocalyptic traditions.

4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie

4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie
Title 4QInstruction : sagesse et eschatologie PDF eBook
Author Jean-Sébastien Rey
Publisher BRILL
Pages 420
Release 2009-01-31
Genre Religion
ISBN 9047426150

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This volume consists of an edition, a translation and a commentary of the most important fragments of 4QInstruction. Initially it deals with the linguistic characteristics of the scroll highlighting the links between 4QInstruction and Ben Sira, and also with the Community Rule and the Hodayot. It then investigates the Sapiential fragments dealing with poverty, husband-wife and parent-child relationships. Finally it examines the eschatological fragments. The work seeks to improve the edition and understanding of this fundamental text enhancing our knowledge of the history and development of thinking at Qumran. Moreover, it examines links which 4QInstruction establishes between purely Sapiential discourse and descriptions of eschatological judgement. This study substantially illuminates our understanding of the Wisdom movement in the early intertestamental period.

Echoes from the Caves

Echoes from the Caves
Title Echoes from the Caves PDF eBook
Author F. Garc-A Mart-Nez
Publisher BRILL
Pages 357
Release 2009
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004176969

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In spite of the amount of literature on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, no consensus among the scholars has emerged as yet on how to explain both the similarities and the differences among the two corpora of religious writings. This volume contains a revised form of the contributions to an experts meeting held at the Catholic University of Leuven on December 2007 dedicated to explore the relationship among the two corpora and to understand both the commonalities and the differences between the two corpora from the perspective of the common ground from which both corpora have developed: the Hebrew Bible.

The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Title The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls PDF eBook
Author Jeremy D. Lyon
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 228
Release 2019-04-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 1532607776

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The Dead Sea Scrolls continue to shed ancient light on both the text and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible during the Second Temple period. Among the scrolls are several copies of Genesis dating from the first century BC to the mid-first century AD that contain portions of text from the creation account. These fragmentary copies have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the condition of the text in antiquity and have also provided a unique window into certain scribal practices in the copying of the text. In addition, several texts from Qumran contain the most ancient surviving interpretations of the Genesis creation account, dating from the mid-second century BC to the first century AD. A literary analysis of these texts reveals how ancient Jews interpreted and employed the creation account. These diverse texts address issues such as the creation of various entities (the universe, angels, Eden, humanity), Adam's dominion and knowledge in Eden, God's election of Israel on the first Sabbath, the prohibition in the garden and Adam's rebellion, and the Garden of Eden as an archetype of the sanctuary.

The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought

The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought
Title The Wisdom Texts from Qumran and the Development of Sapiential Thought PDF eBook
Author Charlotte Hempel
Publisher Peeters Publishers
Pages 536
Release 2002
Genre Dead Sea scrolls
ISBN 9789042910102

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This volume comprises the lectures delivered at a conference on the sapiential texts from Qumran hosted by A. Lange and H. Lichtenberger in Tubingen (1998) as well as a number of additional contributions. This literature, although found in the Qumran library, is mostly of non-Essene origin and can be dated to the third and second century BCE with a single exception which might be even older. The sapiential texts from Qumran add to the sparse corpus of postexilic sapiential literature and shed new light on the later Israelite and Jewish wisdom as well as on the sources from which early Christian wisdom traditions originated. Therefore, the volume attempts to understand the wisdom literature from Qumran in the broader context of sapiential thought in the Ancient near East, the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Judaism and the New Testament. Beyond this, the volume further includes treatments of introductory and linguistic questions as well as articles on specific sapiential texts.

The Time of Salvation

The Time of Salvation
Title The Time of Salvation PDF eBook
Author Årstein Justnes
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 442
Release 2009
Genre Religion
ISBN 9783631581780

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4Q246 (4QApocryphon of Daniel ar), 4Q521 (4QMessianic Apocalypse), and 4Q215a (4QTime of Righteousness) are among the «newer» texts from Qumran Cave 4 that are of relatively recent publication. All three texts share an interest in eschatology, and more specifically in the time of salvation. Two of them, 4Q246 and 4Q521, are among the most debated texts from the Qumran library, chiefly because they are assumed to have significant and substantial parallels to texts in the New Testament. The main aim of the thesis is a separate and detailed analysis of the three texts. More substantially this analysis aims at presenting improved textual editions of each of the texts, with new readings, critically examine and evaluate scholars' attempts to restore the texts' fragmentary parts, and writing detailed commentaries on the texts. On the basis of this detailed treatment of the three texts, the images they present of the time of salvation are compared in a synthetic presentation.