This volume contains 15 of the papers read at the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS, celebrated in Groningen 27-28 July, 2004. The meeting focused on the identity formation of the group or groups represented in the Scrolls, explored issues of self-definition of Jewish groups in relation to, or in reaction towards other groups within Judaism ("sectarian" identity, inner-Jewish discourses and polemics), and inquired into the development of Jewish identity vis-a-vis other non-Jewish persons, groups or peoples as reflected in the Scrolls.
Author(s): Florentino Garcia Martinez and Mladen Popovic
Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 70
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 291
Contents
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Preface......Page 8
Cultivating Identity: Textual Virtuosity and "Insider" Status (Maxine L. Grossman)......Page 10
Constructing "We, You, and the Others" through Non-Polemical Discourse (Carol A. Newsom)......Page 22
Polarized Self-Identification in the Qumran Texts (George W.E. Nickelsburg)......Page 32
"Old" and "New" Israel in the Bible and the Qumran Scrolls: Identity and Difference (Philip R. Davies)......Page 42
Emerging Communal Life and Ideology in the S Tradition (Charlotte Hempel)......Page 52
Whom Does the Term Yahad Identify? (Sarianna Metso)......Page 72
Social Identity Approach: Identity-Constructing Elements in the Psalms Pesher (Jutta Jokiranta)......Page 94
Eschatological Identities in the Damascus Document (Albert L.A. Hogeterp)......Page 120
La Règle de la Guerre (1QM) et la construction de l'identité sectaire (Jean Duhaime)......Page 140
Les identités en présence dans les scènes du jugement dernier de 4QInstruction (4Q416 1 et 4Q418 69 ii) (Émile Puech)......Page 156
Gôrâl versus Payîs: Casting Lots at Qumran and in the Rabbinic Tradition (Francis Schmidt)......Page 184
Keeping Outsiders Out: Impurity at Qumran (Hannah K. Harrington)......Page 196
La Visite de Dieu dans l'Instruction sur les Deux Esprits (1QS 3:13–4:26) Caractérisation de la communauté de Qumrân et de ses ennemis (André Gagné)......Page 214
Creation, Eschatology and Ethics in 4QInstruction (Grant Macaskill)......Page 226
"Sicarii Essenes," "The Party of the Circumcision," and Qumran (Robert Eisenman)......Page 256
Index of modern authors......Page 270
Index of ancient sources......Page 273
