The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context
This introduction aims at situating the contributions of the Thematic Issue into wider debates on Hellenism and Hellenisation and changes taking place in scholarship. Essentialist notions of Hellenism are strongly rejected, but how then to study the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran site during the He...
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Subtitles: | The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context |
| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2017
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Qumran Community
/ Hellenism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions HD Early Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Hellenism
Hellenisation
Qumran
comparative context
globalisation
identity
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This introduction aims at situating the contributions of the Thematic Issue into wider debates on Hellenism and Hellenisation and changes taking place in scholarship. Essentialist notions of Hellenism are strongly rejected, but how then to study the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran site during the Hellenistic period? Each contextualisation depends on the (comparative) material selected, and themes here vary from literary genres, textual practices, and forms of producing knowledge, to material culture, networks, and social organizations. All contributors see some embeddedness in ideas and practices attested elsewhere in the Hellenistic empires or taking place because of changes during the Hellenistic period. In this framework, similarities are overemphasized, but some differences are also suggested. Most importantly, the question of Hellenism is a question of relocating Jewish and Judaean evidence in the study of ancient history. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341442 |