Soon after the discovery of 1QS, comparisons with private associations from the Hellenistic and Roman world were suggested. There are clearly some parallels in internal organization. However, scholars using this comparison to explain features of the yaḥad have rarely taken the environment that made associations in the Hellenistic world possible into account. By way of a comparison of attitudes towards temples, this article seeks to reintroduce the social context of private associations into the debate. While Hellenistic associations can be said to have developed temple ideologies not dissimilar to certain features of the yaḥad, the conditions, aims and implications of those respective ideologies were fundamentally different. This has obvious implications for understanding the social identity of members, and should caution against decontextualized comparisons.

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寺庙意识形态和希腊化私人协会

在发现 1QS 后不久，有人建议将其与希腊化和罗马世界的私人协会进行比较。内部组织显然有一些相似之处。然而，使用这种比较来解释 yaḥad 特征的学者很少考虑使希腊化世界中的关联成为可能的环境。通过比较对寺庙的态度，本文试图将私人协会的社会背景重新引入辩论中。虽然可以说希腊化协会已经发展出与 yaḥad 的某些特征没有什么不同的寺庙意识形态，但这些各自意识形态的条件、目标和含义是根本不同的。这对于理解成员的社会身份具有明显的意义，