“Were the Jews of Qumran Hellenistic Jews?”
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...
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Subtitles: | The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| 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: | HD Early Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Hellenism and the scrolls
Sectarianism
Commentary and Interpretation
Encyclopaedism
Ancient science
Libraries
Hellenistic Judaism
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| Online Access: |
Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341443 |