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Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of The Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yaḥad or S), scholars have been perplexed about its complex textual history. This important charter material for the Dead Sea Scrolls’ authors appears in alternate versions—ones with contradictory legal prescriptions and opposing self-references—but exhibits no clear order of chronological development. Benefitting from the entire Qumran library now available to us, this book offers a new, broader model for reading S that better accounts for the long and diverse history behind the text. The resulting paradigm challenges the Qumrancentric lens through which many read the “sectarian texts” and offers a fresh way of thinking about sectarian community formation among the authors of the Scrolls.

229*316.2 --- 229*316.2 Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Qumran community. --- Communauté de Qumrān --- Manual of discipline --- Criticism, Textual. --- Qumran community --- Kumran community --- Jewish sects --- Essenes --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Sectarian document --- Rule of the community --- Community rule --- Serekh ha-yaḥad

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This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the “self” became an important symbolic space for the development of the ideology of the sect. Persons who came to experience themselves in light of the narratives and symbolic structures embedded in the community practices would have developed the dispositions of affinity and estrangement necessary for the constitution of a sectarian society. Drawing on various theories of discourse and practice in rhetoric, philosophy, and anthropology, the book examines the construction of the self in two central documents: the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodayot.

Handleiding van discipline --- Manual of discipline --- Manuel de discipline --- Qumran (Communauté) --- Qumran community --- Qumrangemeenschap --- 229*316.2 --- 229*316.2 Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Hebrew language --- Kumran community --- Jewish sects --- Essenes --- Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Discourse analysis --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Judaism --- Languages --- Manual of discipline. --- Thanksgiving Psalms. --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Hodayot --- Hodayoth --- Hymns of thanksgiving --- Megilat hodayot --- Psalms of thanksgiving --- Scroll of thanksgivings --- Scroll of the hymns --- Thanksgiving hymns --- Thanksgiving scroll --- Sectarian document --- Rule of the community --- Community rule --- Serekh ha-yaḥad --- Thanksgiving Psalms --- Religious aspects --- Qumran community. --- Discourse analysis. --- Judaism.

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This volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. An introductory chapter establishes the state of the question. Three subsequent chapters focus on major sectarian texts: the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community, and 4QInstruction A. Other sectarian and non-sectarian texts that mention wealth are discussed in a fifth chapter, while archaeological evidence from the Qumran region and contemporary documentary texts are introduced in chapters seven and eight. Finally, ancient secondary testimony on Essene economic practices is discussed. The book breaks new ground in arguing for several biblical rationales for the practice of shared wealth. Its integration of archaeological and documentary evidence sheds surprising new light on the economic organization of the Qumran community.

Qumran (Communauté) --- Qumran community --- Qumrangemeenschap --- 229*316.2 --- Wealth --- -Qumran community --- Kumran community --- Jewish sects --- Essenes --- 229*316.2 Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Religious aspects --- -Judaism --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Judaism --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Jerusalem scrolls --- ʻAin Fashka scrolls --- Jericho scrolls --- Scrolls, Dead Sea --- Qumrân scrolls --- Rękopisy z Qumran --- Shikai bunsho --- Megilot Midbar Yehudah --- Dodezee-rollen --- Kumránské rukopisy --- Documentos de Qumrán --- Textos de Qumrán --- Rollos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscritos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscrits de la mer Morte --- Dödahavsrullarna --- Kumranin kirjoitukset --- Kuolleenmeren kirjoitukset --- Qumranhandskrifterna --- Qumranin kirjoitukset --- Qumran Caves scrolls --- Dead Sea Scrolls --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Qumran community. --- Judaism.

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The study asserts that conflicting sacrificial rules were the motive of the schism in Judean society, in the last period of the Second Temple. The study substantiates the thesis by a meticulous examination and comparison of the rabbinic and Qumran exegetical methods, and an exhaustive scrutiny of biblical sacrificial rules, demonstrating their deficiencies, the cause of the exegetical dissensions among the different groups. A short record of historical struggles, due to cult issues, and a scrutiny of Qumran literature, corroborating the utmost significance of the Temple cult in that group, complement the study. The study is useful for a comprehension of Qumran literature and particularly of the system of thought of its authors and their approach to the biblical writings.

Judaism --- Jewish sects --- Grain --- Jewish law --- 229*316.2 --- 229*316.2 Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Qumran-secte en Essenen --- Biblical law --- Civil law (Jewish law) --- Halacha --- Halakha --- Halakhah --- Hebrew law --- Jews --- Law, Hebrew --- Law, Jewish --- Law, Mosaic --- Law in the Bible --- Mosaic law --- Torah law --- Law, Semitic --- Commandments (Judaism) --- Breadstuffs --- Cereal grains --- Cereals --- Grains --- Botany, Economic --- Field crops --- Flour --- Food --- Food crops --- Seed crops --- Sects --- Jewish heresies --- Religions --- Semites --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic --- Liturgy --- History --- Religious aspects --- Interpretation and construction --- Law --- Religion --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Jerusalem scrolls --- ʻAin Fashka scrolls --- Jericho scrolls --- Scrolls, Dead Sea --- Qumrân scrolls --- Rękopisy z Qumran --- Shikai bunsho --- Megilot Midbar Yehudah --- Dodezee-rollen --- Kumránské rukopisy --- Documentos de Qumrán --- Textos de Qumrán --- Rollos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscritos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscrits de la mer Morte --- Dödahavsrullarna --- Kumranin kirjoitukset --- Kuolleenmeren kirjoitukset --- Qumranhandskrifterna --- Qumranin kirjoitukset --- Qumran Caves scrolls --- Judaïsme --- Sectes juives --- Céréales --- Droit juif --- Liturgie --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Interprétation --- Dode-Zeerollen. --- Kerkscheuringen. --- Offercultus. --- Rabbijnse literatuur.