[Rezension von: Wold, Benjamin G., 1974-, 4QInstruction : division and hierarchies]

This monograph re-examines the well-known but fragmentary wisdom text commonly known as 4QInstruction. Wold sets out to challenge the traditional reading of 4QInstruction as deterministic, dualistic, and apocalyptic, as well as the idea that special revelation was available only to the spiritual ele...

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Main Author: Byun, Seulgi L. (Author)
Contributors: Wold, Benjamin G. 1974- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2020
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 847-849
Review of:4QInstruction (Leiden : Brill, 2018) (Byun, Seulgi L.)
4QInstruction (Boston : BRILL, 2018) (Byun, Seulgi L.)
4QInstruction (Leiden : Brill, 2018) (Byun, Seulgi L.)
4QInstruction (Boston : BRILL, 2018) (Byun, Seulgi L.)
4QInstruction (Leiden : Brill, 2018) (Byun, Seulgi L.)
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Summary:This monograph re-examines the well-known but fragmentary wisdom text commonly known as 4QInstruction. Wold sets out to challenge the traditional reading of 4QInstruction as deterministic, dualistic, and apocalyptic, as well as the idea that special revelation was available only to the spiritual elect. Rather, 4QInstruction should be characterized as teaching on universal wisdom and how one should live in this world in the light of another world. Wold provides his own reconstructions and translations of these manuscripts (only 30 per cent of 4QInstruction has been preserved) based on a careful analysis of the material. This is followed by extensive commentary and, where appropriate, semantic studies of key words and phrases. The monograph begins with a short introduction that surveys the status quo on 4QInstruction and establishes Wold’s position on the provenance, social location, the reception of the text before and at Qumran, and the meaning of key phrases, such as raz nihyey, which he rightly translates ‘mystery of existence’. This is followed by three substantive chapters, a few concluding remarks, a bibliography, indices, and a plate section with photos of the salient manuscripts in both colour and monochrome (4Q423 11; 4Q417 1 i, 2 i; 4Q418 184, 221, 238).
ISSN:1477-4607
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jts/flaa125