The people who produced and used the scrolls offer us a particularly fascinating example of the extent to which we might call the people/communities of the scrolls “Hellenistic Jews.” The default concept of antiquity that scholars use, the way the term “sectarian” gets employed, and the geography of the Hellenistic world all separate the yaḥad from the larger Hellenistic world. Yet, the scrolls compare well with Hellenistic discourses and practices of collection, textual scholarship, and scientific knowledge. Moreover, if we read the scrolls alongside of other Jewish texts usually considered Hellenistic, we see similar patterns of thought and common interests. In this sense, then, the yaḥad and the scrolls fit well into their Hellenistic environment.

中文翻译：

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“库姆兰的犹太人是希腊化的犹太人吗？”

制作和使用这些卷轴的人为我们提供了一个特别迷人的例子，说明我们可以在多大程度上称这些卷轴的人/社区为“希腊化的犹太人”。学者使用的默认古代概念、“宗派”一词的使用方式以及希腊化世界的地理都将 yaḥad 与更大的希腊化世界区分开来。然而，这些卷轴与希腊化的话语和收藏、文献研究和科学知识的实践相得益彰。此外，如果我们将这些卷轴与其他通常被认为是希腊化的犹太文本一起阅读，我们会看到相似的思想模式和共同兴趣。从这个意义上说，yaḥad 和卷轴非常适合他们的希腊化环境。