The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28-30 May, 2013

323 Pages·2018·1.63 MB·English

by  Ruth A Clements

The Religious Worldviews Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Studies on the Texts of the
Desert of Judah
Edited by
George J. Brooke
Associate Editors
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar
Jonathan Ben-Dov
Alison Schofield
volume 127
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The Religious Worldviews
Reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International
Symposium of the Orion Center for the
Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated
Literature, 28–30 May, 2013
Edited by
Ruth A. Clements
Menahem Kister
Michael Segal
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated
 Literature. International Symposium (14th : 2013 : Hebrew University of
 Jerusalem), author. | Clements, Ruth, editor. | Kister, Menahem, editor. |
 Segal, Michael, 1972– editor.
Title: The religious worldviews reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls :
 proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium of the Orion Center
 for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 28–30
 May, 2013 / edited by Ruth A. Clements, Menahem Kister, Michael Segal.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] | Series: Studies on the texts
 of the desert of Judah, ISSN 0169-9962 ; volume 127 |
 Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018035515 (print) | LCCN 2018044942 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Dead Sea scrolls—Congresses. | Judaism—History—Post-exilic
 period, 586 B.C.–210 A.D.—Congresses. | Excavations (Archaeology)—West
 Bank—Qumran Site—Congresses. | Qumran Site (West
 Bank)—Antiquities—Congresses.
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Contents
Preface VII
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xiii
An Investigation into the Continuity between Biblical Literature and the
Scrolls 1
Jonathan Ben-Dov
Theologies in Tension in the Dead Sea Scrolls 25
John J. Collins
Concealing and Revealing in the Ideology of the Qumran Community 48
Devorah Dimant
Between Divine Justice and Doxology: Images of Heaven in the Dead Sea
Scrolls 63
Beate Ego
The Notion of the Spirit in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Texts of the Early Jesus
Movement 83
Jörg Frey
Qumran, Jubilees, and the Jewish Dimensions of 2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1 103
Menahem Kister
The Divine Name in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in New Testament
Writings 140
Hermann Lichtenberger
God, Gods, and Godhead in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice 161
Noam Mizrahi
Predeterminism and Moral Agency in the Hodayot 193
Carol A. Newsom
Interpreting History in Qumran Texts 212
Michael Segal
vi Contents
Eschatology and the Sacred Past in Serekh ha-Milḥamah 245
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Two Creations for One Nation: Apocalyptic Worldviews in Jubilees and
Qumran Writings 264
Cana Werman
Index of Modern Authors 285
Index of Ancient Sources 289
Preface
The theme of the Fourteenth International Orion Symposium, “Religious
Worldviews in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” had its genesis in the realization that the
theological thought-worlds reflected in the scrolls corpus continue to repre-
sent an underexplored area of study. The scrolls offer a window onto the rich
religious landscape of Judaism in the Second Temple period. Study of the
scrolls in conjunction with other ancient writings allows the opportunity to re-
fine our understanding, both of the religious ideologies reflected in the scrolls
themselves, and of the wider social and religious contexts within which these
texts and traditions took shape. In the Fourteenth Orion Symposium, schol-
ars from Israel, Europe, and North America addressed broad themes (dualism,
determinism, election, covenant, moral agency); more specific religious concepts
within individual scrolls (notions of heaven, the spirit, apocalyptic); and particular
exegetical or interpretive problems that point to theological reflectiveness on the
part of the scrolls community.
The papers collected here draw on a variety of methodological perspectives,
including linguistic and literary analyses, sociology and memory studies. The
focus of the articles is first and foremost on the texts themselves, elucidating
beliefs, aspects of religious experience, and broader themes reflected in the
scrolls and in related writings. The articles explore dualism and esoteric knowl-
edge, eschatology and covenant, the nature of the divine, development of the
self, the religious framing of history, and more; as well as connections between
concepts expressed in the Qumran corpus and in later Jewish and Christian lit-
erature. The religious worldviews reflected in the Scrolls are part and parcel of
the ideological complex of Second Temple Judaism, and the analysis of these
texts is essential for the reconstruction of its many facets. Taken together, these
studies indicate the breadth and depth of theological reflection in the Second
Temple period.
We would like to thank the Orion Foundation, the Sir Zelman Cowen
Universities Fund, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for their generous
support of the Fourteenth Orion Symposium as well as the ongoing work of the
Orion Center, including the present volume.
We extend our appreciation to the Orion Center staff, headed by Ms. Ariella
Amir, which was responsible for the efficient running of the symposium; and
to Orion research assistant, Ms. Shiran Shevah, for her editorial assistance with
the volume. The editors are grateful to George Brooke for accepting the volume
into the series Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, and to Marjolein
viii Preface
Van Zuylen and Maaike Langerak of Brill Academic Publishers, for guiding the
volume through production.
Ruth A. Clements
Menahem Kister
Michael Segal
Jerusalem 5778 // 2018
Abbreviations
AB Anchor Bible
AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums
AJEC Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im
Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Ed. H. Temporini and W. Haase. Berlin: de
Gruyter, 1972–
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge
BETL Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium
BEvT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie
BibOr Biblica et Orientalia
BIOSCS Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate
Studies
BJS Brown Judaic Studies
BThS Biblisch-Theologische Studien
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series
CEJL Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature
CQS Companion to the Qumran Scrolls
CRINT Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
CrStHB Critical Studies in the Hebrew Bible
CSCO Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum
DCH Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. Edited by D. J. A. Clines. 8 vols. Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1993–2012
DJD Discoveries in the Judaean Desert
DSD Dead Sea Discoveries
DSSEL Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library. Edited by Emanuel Tov. Rev. ed. Leiden:
Brill, 2006
DSSSE Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Edited by Florentino García Martínez and
Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997–1998
EDSS Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Ed. L. H. Schiffman and J. C.
VanderKam. 2 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000
ETL Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses