Priesthood and Cult in the Visions of Amram: A Critical Evaluation of Its Attitudes toward the Contemporary Temple Establishment in Jerusalem
This paper evaluates the attitudes toward the contemporary Jerusalem priesthood and cult on evidence in the Visions of Amram. To the extent that this issue has been treated, scholars have generally argued that the Visions of Amram originated among groups that were hostile to the Aaronid priesthood....
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Vision Amrams
/ Old Testament
/ Priest
/ Cult
/ Temple (Jerusalem)
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Aaron
B Priesthood B Levi B Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls B Visions of Amram B Melchizedek |
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| Summary: | This paper evaluates the attitudes toward the contemporary Jerusalem priesthood and cult on evidence in the Visions of Amram. To the extent that this issue has been treated, scholars have generally argued that the Visions of Amram originated among groups that were hostile to the Aaronid priesthood. Such treatments, however, have left some of the most germane fragments unexamined, several of which deal directly with matters pertaining to the cult, Aaron, and his offspring (4Q547 5 1-3; 8 2-4; 9 5-7; 4Q545 4 16-19). My study incorporates these fragments into the larger discussion, and in so doing demonstrates that many of the views expressed in the secondary literature require revision. My analysis shows that, though the social location of the Visions of Amram is difficult to determine, we should not be too quick to dismiss the possibility that the writer was a supporter of the contemporary status quo in the temple, given the elevated status afforded to both Aaron and his eternal posterity throughout the text. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341504 |