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From Qumran Caves to Swiss Vaults Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Årstein Justnes
When first announced, many of the post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments were depicted as experienced travelers having moved over long distances. Some of Martin Schøyen’s fragments had allegedly been to Bethlehem, Lebanon, and Zurich before they eventually came to Norway. According to Weston W. Fields, the so-called Butterfly fragment—William Kando’s fabled Genesis scroll—was first sent to Germany
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The Provenance of the “Seiyal Collection” Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Michael Press
This article considers the collection history of the so-called “Seiyal Collection,” purchased by the Palestine Archaeological Museum in 1952 and 1953. While the Taʿamireh Bedouin and/or Khalil Iskander Shahin reported the material as coming from Wadi Seiyal, much if not all of the material was actually looted from caves in Nahal Hever. The common claim that the Bedouin misreported the findspot to hide
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Qumran Hebrew Qal Prefix Conjugation Forms with Mater w after the First Radical Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Christian Stadel
Forms like ידורשהו, viz. qal stem prefix conjugation forms with an object suffix in which a mater lectionis indicates the presence of a rounded vowel after the first radical, constitute the only unique Qumran Hebrew morphological trait that has no parallels in other traditions of the language. In this paper, I suggest a new explanation for the development of these forms (and of orthographically
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ממולח טוהר: Qumranic and Medieval Exegesis Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Chanan Ariel
The phrase ממולח טוהר appears four times in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, describing the firmament and the angels’ garments. John Strugnell, followed by most scholars, proposed that the phrase be understood as “purely blended.” An examination of the context in which the phrase appears in the Songs supports the possibility that its use began as a reference to the brightness of the firmament
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Fragments of Texts and Fragmentary Textual Traditions: Rethinking the Role of Codex Panopolitanus and Ethiopic Enoch in the Reconstruction and Restoration of the Aramaic Enochic Theophany in 4QEna (4Q201) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Alexander McCarron
Since the publication of the Aramaic Enochic manuscript fragments by J.T. Milik in 1976, the secondary Greek and Ethiopic versions have played a key role in how the Enochic fragments have been reconstructed and restored. In the case of the Enochic theophany (1 Enoch 1:1–9) in 4QEna (4Q201), the edges of the fragments are often retrospectively reconstructed and restored in dialogue with the Greek text-type
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The Quality of Hasmonaean Biblical Manuscripts Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Mladen Popović, Eibert Tigchelaar
Recent research has introduced the categories of deluxe or high-quality Dead Sea Scrolls. We reconsider this category and propose a classification of manuscripts on the basis of handwriting quality. As a test case, we classify all Hasmonaean-type biblical manuscripts as elegant, professional, or substandard. We discuss eleven scrolls with elegant handwriting and consider other physical, scribal, and
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Reconsidering 4Q69 (4QpapIsap) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Asaf Gayer
4Q69 consists of two small papyrus fragments treating to Isa 5:28–30. Following Raffaella Cribiore’s criterion for identification of scribal exercises, an analysis of the textual variants to which the 4Q69 fragments attest will serve as a platform for exploring why the scribe(s) chose papyrus instead of parchment as his medium, the implications of the scroll’s column width, and the significance of
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Wrapping Up 1QM Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Michael B. Johnson
This article evaluates the debated placements of fragments in the reconstruction of the War Scroll from Cave 1 (1QM). There are three fragments (frags. 3, 9, 10) and one large fragment cluster (1QM 2, 8, DSSHU pl. 34; 1Q33 2) that are contested in 1QM scholarship. These placements are important for establishing the text of 1QM and the determination of whether there was another War Scroll from Cave
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The Qumran Opisthographic Papyri as a Scribal Cluster of Manuscripts Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Ayhan Aksu
This essay will explore to which the degree the opisthographic papyri from Qumran can be seen as a scribal cluster, which I understand to be a group of manuscripts that were produced and/or circulated within the same scribal context. This contribution will present a case study by focusing on the papyrus opisthographs 4Q433a/4Q255, 4Q499/4Q497, 4Q503/4Q512, and 4Q509/4Q496/4Q506. These manuscripts will
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4Q37 and Excerpted Texts of Deuteronomy from Qumran Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Hila Dayfani
Four manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 are identified as manuscripts that constitute a collection of excerpts from Deuteronomy: 4Q37, 4Q38, 4Q41, and 4Q44. This paper focuses on 4Q37 and its contribution to understanding the larger group of Deuteronomy-excerpted texts. Based on material reconstruction of the scroll, the paper confirms that it originally included excerpts from both Deuteronomy and Exodus
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The Conquest of the Temple Scroll and the Creation of the Scholarly Text Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Francis Borchardt
The story of the discovery of the Temple Scroll, frequently retold, is a gripping tale. It mixes archaeology with espionage, and even military victory. In that sense, it is unique. However, in other ways, it participates in conventions of discovery narratives nearly as old as writing itself. Like ancient find accounts, it establishes a provenance for the manuscript, details the labor involved in making
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Evil Powers, Exodus, and Future Deliverance: Qumran Texts and Sayings of Jesus Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Menahem Kister
In the present article, I argue that a passage from the Damascus Document (CD 4:12–16 + 5:15–19) and an opaque saying attributed to Jesus (Luke 11:20) mutually illuminate each other. The starting point of both is the conception that a conflict between God and the evil power(s) took place before the Exodus. An analogy is drawn between this period and the present liminal period considered as the beginning
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The Passive Participle כתוב—A Citation or Keyword Formula?: A Case Study of MMT Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Michal Klukowski
The analysis of the uses of the passive participle כתוב in the halakhic section of MMT shows that the כתוב formula introduces keywords rather than summative quotations. By quoting keywords, the authors of MMT enable their addressee to easily identify a passage from Scripture. The way in which the scriptural passage is quoted suggests that the words introduced by the formula have been selected
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AIBL-CIS de Ricci no. 2: A New Jewish and Aramaic Religious Text from Egypt Dating between the Early 2nd and Early 4th Centuries CE Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 James D. Moore, Maria Gorea
This article presents a previously unknown Jewish and Aramaic religious literary composition dating between the early second and early fourth centuries CE. The document focuses on a righteous man within the context of angels, demons, and spirits. The manuscript, which is housed in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Cabinet du Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, has a clear acquisition history
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The Power of the Wisdom Label in Dead Sea Scrolls Research and the Curious Case of 4Q419 (4QInstruction-Like Composition A) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Charles P. Comerford
This article tells the story of 4Q419, a manuscript that was once associated with a well-known Wisdom text: 4QInstruction. However, following its removal from 4QInstruction and re-categorisation as an “Unclassified Manuscript” in the 1990s (see DSSR 6 and DJD 39), 4Q419 has been largely overlooked by the scholarly community. There are two core objectives to this article. First, it encourages scholars
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A New Identification of a Psalm Manuscript from Qumran: 4Q85 + 4Q98c Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Drew Longacre, Brent A. Strawn
This brief note proposes a new identification for a fragment of one of the Psalm manuscripts from Qumran. On the basis of material conditions—but above all else, the distinctive paleography of the script—4Q98c (4QP st) should be considered as part of the same manuscript known as 4Q85 (4QP sc). If this identification is correct, the latter now contains material known from the second half of the (proto-)MT
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A Scroll Divided?: An Examination of the Wadded Bundle of 1QHodayota Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Michael B. Johnson
When the Dead Sea scroll 1QHodayota, containing a collection of thanksgiving psalms from Qumran, was acquired by Eleazar L. Sukenik in 1947, he received it in two separate bundles of folded and wadded material. In this article, I explore whether the material from these two bundles belongs to the same scroll or to two separate scrolls as Jean Carmignac and Angela Kim Harkins have proposed. While it
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Beyond Oral and Written Prophecy Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Elizabeth Stell
This article examines performance as part of the prophetic and revelatory in ancient Jewish literature. The body of the article centres on the so-called “prophetic actions” within the biblical corpus. Scholarship’s use of this category has highlighted nonverbal performance as a part of prophecy but raises questions regarding the efficacy of these varied actions as well as their distinction from written
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Dots, Versification and Grammar Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Johan M.V. Lundberg
The Syriac gospel of Matthew is divided into sentences by means of pausal accent dots, both single clause sentences and complex sentences. This article explores the relationship between these pausal accent dots and verse division, comparing the Syriac dotting system with Greek punctuation marks and Hebrew accents. All three traditions divide the text into larger and smaller sections. In the Hebrew
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Performance in Ancient and Medieval Judaism Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Geoffrey Khan, Hindy Najman
This article explores the performance of Jewish sacred textual traditions. Performance, as we define it, is both textual and oral and works dynamically between the two. In the Second Temple period, we show the variety of performance which embodies the vitality of the texts. Performance is a feature of scribal practice and liturgy (e.g., Hodayot). It draws on existing text to create something new (e
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The Performance of Blessing as Imitation of Divine Beings Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Arjen Bakker
This essay examines Qumran texts that not only perform blessing but also reflect on the activity of blessing itself, and thereby offer an opportunity to better understand the urge and necessity behind the growth of liturgical cycles that generate traditions of prayer. The paper looks at three texts, the hymns of the maśkîl, the Hymn to the Creator, and 4Q408, in which the performance of blessing is
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The Qumran Opisthograph 4Q509/4Q496/4Q506 as an Intentional Collection of Prayers Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Ayhan Aksu
4Q509/4Q496/4Q506 is the only opisthograph from Qumran with extant evidence for three different compositions: the recto preserves a copy of Festival Prayers (4Q509), and the verso contains copies of the War Scroll (4Q496) and Words of the Luminaries (4Q506). This article investigates the circumstances under which these texts were written down together, and explores a potential performative setting
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Recitation and Performance in Late Antique Hebrew Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Benjamin Kantor
Significant linguistic research has been carried out in the field of language register and its relevance for speech patterns. In various contexts, language users tend to employ different linguistic features, especially but not limited to the realm of pronunciation. In many linguistic communities, there is a higher register of language associated with more formal settings, a lower register of language
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Variations on a Theme by Muḥammad Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Shady Hekmat Nasser
This essay explores the tense relationship between the oral and written transmissions in the history of the Qurʾān. While Muslim scholars consider “orality” to be the cornerstone in the process of transmitting their holy text, I argue that writing, in its various forms, was a crucial element in transmitting and validating the Qurʾān. Orality was also an important component in this process of transmission
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When the Readers Break the Rules Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Marijn van Putten
The Quranic text today is recited in ten canonical reading traditions with two distinct canonical transmissions each. These reading traditions are distinct in their phonological and morphological details, as well as the interpretation of the ambiguous consonantal text. However, they all have in common that they adhere to the consonantal skeleton of the standard Quran text. Despite this adherence, on
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Misinterpreted Elliptical Structures in 1QIsaa: A Sentence-Processing Perspective Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Einav Fleck
This article examines elliptical structures in MT Isaiah that were apparently interpreted as non-elliptical in 1QIsaa. The different interpretation in the scroll is evident from various changes compared to the Masoretic Text of Isaiah, e.g., a change in gender or number of a verb; a change in the lexical category of a word; omission or addition of function word. These variants are evaluated from a
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A New Transcription and Assessment of 4Q9 (4QGenesisj): Manuscript, Scribe, and Text Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Eibert Tigchelaar
This article presents a new transcription of 4Q9 on the basis of the new photographs and the identification of four more fragments. The irregular hand and the scribal errors indicate that the scribe was not very skilled. Orthographically and morphologically the text is very close to the Samaritan Pentateuch.
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What Has Esther to Do with Qumran? Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Bronson Brown-deVost
This article investigates some of the previous claims that have been made for the knowledge of the book of Esther at Qumran. Following the recent advances in the study of textual allusion and re-use, it is no longer tenable to posit any reference to or knowledge of Esther within the writings from Qumran. In addition, it is argued that the one case where a relationship to Esther seemed most certain
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Qumran Cave 4: The Aramaic Books of Enoch: 4Q201, 4Q202, 4Q204, 4Q205, 4Q206, 4Q207, 4Q212, by Henryk Drawnel in consultation with Émile Puech Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 James C. VanderKam
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Leviticus and Its Reception in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran, by Baesick Choi Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Hila Dayfani
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Theology and Anthropology in the Book of Sirach, by Bonifatia Gesche, Christian Lustig, and Gabriel Rabo (eds.) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Alma Brodersen
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Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran: Essays from the Copenhagen Symposium, 14–15 August 2017, by Mette Bundvad and Kasper Siegismund (eds.), with the collaboration of Melissa Sayyad Bach, Søren Holst, and Jesper Høgenhaven Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Robert Jones
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Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zu den Texten vom Toten Meer einschließlich der Manuskripte aus der Kairoer Geniza, by Reinhard G. Kratz, Annette Steudel, and Ingo Kottsieper (eds.) & Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zu den Texten vom Toten Meer einschließlich der Manuskripte aus der Kairoer Geniza, by Reinhard G. Kratz, Annette Steudel, and Ingo Kottsieper (eds.) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Aaron J. Koller
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The Crown and the Courts: Separation of Powers in the Early Jewish Imagination, by David C. Flatto Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Natalie Dohrmann
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Decrees for the “Volunteers” of the People: The Function of the Pesher of the Well in the Context of the Damascus Document Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Bryan Elliff
The Damascus Document’s Pesher of the Well (CD 6:2–11) has generally been treated as an isolated unit, either as an example of Qumran exegesis or as evidence for the history of the sect. The present study offers a fresh reading of this section that gives special attention to its rhetorical function within the document and its relationship to the document’s legal material in particular. It is argued
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Shapira’s Deuteronomy, Its Decalogue, and Dead Sea Scrolls Authentic and Forged Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Jonathan Klawans
This essay engages Idan Dershowitz’s recent attempt to rehabilitate the Deuteronomy fragments Moses Wilhelm Shapira offered for sale in 1883. After summarizing the contents of Dershowitz’s volume, this paper evaluates Shapira’s fragments in relation to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Moabitica and other forgeries connected to Shapira. It considers the implications of Shapira’s transcription of the text,
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“Make Me a Sanctuary”: Revisiting 4Q364 (4QRPb) 15 Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Ariel Feldman, Faina Feldman
This contribution offers a new reading and reconstruction of an addition found in the text of Exod 24:18–25:1 as preserved in 4Q364 (4QRP b) 15. Alluding to Exod 25:8 (and possibly 9), it appears to elucidate the purpose of Moses’s forty days’ long stay atop Mount Sinai and serves as a nexus between Exod 24:18 and the following discussion of the Tabernacle.
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Reading for Resonance: Divine Presence and Biblical Hermeneutics in the Temple Scroll Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Annie Calderbank
This article offers a hermeneutic approach attentive to the tangled idiomatic and literary interconnections among biblical texts and other Second Temple literature. It focuses on the expressions of divine presence in the Temple Scroll and their prepositions; the divine presence is ‘upon’ the temple and ‘in the midst’ of the people. This prepositional rhetoric engages recurrences and interconnections
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The Social Context of 4QInstruction Reconsidered: Wisdom, Inheritance and Priesthood in 4Q418 frg. 81 Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Anna Shirav
The nature and the social context of Instruction were often discussed in the scholarship. Its relatively high number of copies that have been found in Qumran, and a series of shared literary, linguistic and ideological similarities to compositions often closely associated with the Qumran movement led scholars to debate the attribution of Instruction to this group of texts. This paper argues that the
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Biblical Narrative as Ethics?: The Limits of Exemplarity in Ancient Jewish Literature Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 David Lambert
This paper considers whether biblical narrative was used as part of a technology of the self in Jewish antiquity. Many have seen the assumption that Israel’s ancestors were perfect and, hence, worthy of imitation as essential to the Bible’s identity as Scripture around the turn of the Common Era. Recently several scholars have detailed the specific dynamics of exemplarity among certain readers of the
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The Corporeality of the Self: The Example of Bitter Nefeš as an Ethnomedical Syndrome Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Ingrid E. Lilly
A contribution to Western genealogies of the self, the corporeality of the Hebrew soul (nefeš) is explored through the lens of ancient medical discourses. Using the example of bitterness as an ethnomedical syndrome, this essay shows how the Hebrew idiom “bitter nefeš” acts as an embodied channel of flux in illness narratives about bodily suffering and healing.
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Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Carol A. Newsom
Although the lived experience of subjectivity for persons in antiquity cannot be known directly, one can study certain texts as tools for the formation of subjects. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls two compositions are particularly instructive, the Hodayot found in 1QH a 2–9, 18–28 (the Hodayot of the Maskil, also known as Hodayot of the Community) and the Two Spirits Teaching (1QS 3:13–4:26). Each develops
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The Heart of Self Formation: The Overlap of Moral Selfhood and Legalities in Ancient Scriptural Discourse Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Phillip M. Lasater
This article discusses the “heart” as part of the terminology for selfhood in ancient Jewish literature. After discussing a couple of criticisms of studies of the self and showing how these criticisms fail to persuade, the paper examines a range of texts in the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and beyond for conceptions of the moral self. Special attention is given to the legal S tradition in the
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“May My Musings Please Him” (Psalm 104:34): On the Transformation of Inner Self-Awareness in Wisdom Psalms Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Friedhelm Hartenstein
This article examines the use of the verbs of “meditation” śyḥ and hgh and the corresponding nouns, especially in the Psalms and the Hodayot. Focusing on “meditation” sheds light on the constitution and transformation of an inner self-awareness in Judaism during the Second Temple period. In addition, this article draws on insights from historical and philosophical anthropology to support and deepen
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The Rhetorical Self in Tannaitic Halakha Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Ishay Rosen-Zvi
The halakhic practice does more than regulating the inner world; it takes part in forming it, generating a unique legal subject. But is there a unique halakhic Self? This article examines this question in the context of Tannaitic halakha, both Mishnaic and Midrashic. More specifically I ask whether one can speak of subjectivity in Tannaitic halakha. I study the relationship between anonymous halakhic
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Formation of the Subject—Essays in Honor of Carol Newsom’s 70th Birthday Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Arjen Bakker,Jutta Jokiranta,Hindy Najman
This thematic issue of Dead Sea Discoveries addresses a fundamental issue in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, namely, the formation of the subject. Must there be a subject at all? Or is it, in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s words, “A whole cloud of philosophy condensed into a drop of grammar”? The subject is that which can ascribe predicates to itself but is not itself predicable of anything else. Through
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Getting a Handle on 1QIsaiahb: A New Proposal for the So-Called Handle Sheet of 1QHodayota Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Michael B. Johnson
This article examines Hartmut Stegemann’s preliminary proposal that the remains of the beginning handle sheet of 1QH a have survived and provide useful data for reconstructing the scroll. According to Stegemann, this handle sheet supplies critical material evidence that three columns existed before 1QH a 4, the first substantially extant column in the manuscript. The handle sheet was recovered from
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The Liturgical Communion of the Yaḥad with the Angels: The Origin of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Reconsidered Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Michael R. Jost
Since the discoveries of the first Dead Sea Scrolls, the motif of a communion with the angels has been repeatedly emphasized and discussed as a characteristic of the self-understanding of the community behind these writings. Of particular interest in this discussion are the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (4Q400–407; 11Q17; and Mas1k ShirShabb). However, the origin of the so-called Angelic Liturgy is
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Two Types of Four-Compartment Tefillin Cases from the Judean Desert Caves Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Yonatan Adler
Approximately thirty tefillin cases were discovered in the Judean Desert. The publishers of these finds distinguished between single-compartment cases, which they identified as “arm-tefillin,” and four-compartment cases, which they identified as “head-tefillin.” Here I present a further typological distinction between two subtypes among the four-compartment tefillin cases: (1) the “simple-type,” in
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Born of Woman, Fashioned from Clay: Tracking the Homology of Earth and Womb from the Hebrew Bible to the Psalms of Thanksgiving Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Nicholas A. Meyer
This essay traces the features of a symbolic construct which seldom garners much attention among scholars of biblical and Second Temple texts, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely, the likening of earth and womb. It contends that understanding this symbolism brings clarity to several texts whose interpretation is disputed and illuminates important aspects of sectarian thought, including a perspective
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Some Proposed Connections between the Visions of Amram and the Four Kingdoms in View of the Aramaic Literature from Qumran Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Daniel A. Machiela
The Visions of Amram (4Q543–549) and Four Kingdoms (4Q552–553) are two Aramaic compositions from Qumran that have been recognized to contain apocalyptic dream-visions. In this article I propose some special connections between the dream-visions in these two works, centered on similar dialogues that take place between the seers in each text and characters seen in the dreams. These connections suggest
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Die Handschriften aus der Judäischen Wüste: Die Texte außerhalb Qumrans: Einführung und deutsche Übersetzung, by Gregor Geiger Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Jan Dušek
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Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, by Sidnie White Crawford Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Michael Owen Wise
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Cosmos and Creation: Second Temple Perspectives, by Michael W. Duggan, Renate Egger-Wenzel, and Stefan C. Reif (eds.) Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Lindsey A. Askin
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Heresy, Forgery, Novelty: Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism, by Jonathan Klawans Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, by Benjamin Wold Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 John Kampen
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Angels Associated with Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Angelology and Sectarian Identity at Qumran, by Matthew L. Walsh Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 James R. Davila
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The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation, by Sarianna Metso Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 James Nati
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A Syntax of Qumran Hebrew, by Takamitsu Muraoka Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Tamar Zewi
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The Earliest Commentary on the Prophecy of Habakkuk, by Timothy H. Lim Dead Sea Discoveries (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 George J. Brooke