THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT AND THE COMMUNITY RULE

2000 ◽  
pp. 85-93
Keyword(s):  
Damascus Document ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
The Relationship

An Altar in the Desert?

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Alison Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Spatial Theory ◽  
Conceptual Spaces ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
Rule Out

Jodi Magness’ proposal that an altar existed at Qumran leaves some unanswered questions; nevertheless, her conclusions are worthy of consideration. This study examines her claim that the residents at Qumran had an altar, modeled off of the Wilderness Tabernacle, through the lens of critical spatial theory. The conceptual spaces of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, such as The Damascus Document and The Community Rule, as well as the spatial practices of the site of Qumran do not rule out – and even support – the idea that Qumran itself was highly delimited and therefore its spaces hierarchized in such a way that it could have supported a central cultic site.

Universal and Particular Law in the Letter of James and Early Judaism

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Benjamin Wold
Keyword(s):  
Early Judaism ◽  
Letter Of James ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In the letter of James, ‘law’ (νόμος) is mentioned in three passages: 1.21-25, 2.8-12 and 4.11-12. This article focuses on Jas 1.21-25 and the relationship of λόγος at the beginning of the passage (1.21-23) with νόμος at the end (1.25; cf. 2.12). The question asked is whether James reflects Stoic views or not by analyzing this passage alongside occurrences of the expression רז נהיה (‘mystery of existence’) in 4QInstruction, the Community Rule and 1QMysteries. The broader aim is to consider how this passage of James may be situated within both Jewish Hellenistic literature and sapiential traditions discovered at Qumran in order to challenge straightforward identifications of Jas 1.21-25 with Stoicism. In conclusion, it is not simply that James is seen to align with these Qumran discoveries over and against Stoic thought, but rather all of these traditions are operating with comparable bridging concepts.

scholarly journals Torah for “The Age of Wickedness”: The Authority of the Damascus and Serekh Texts in Light of Biblical and Rewritten Traditions

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly M. Zahn
Keyword(s):  
Self Presentation ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
Literary Techniques

Abstract Considerable attention has been paid recently to the similarities between the composition and development of biblical texts, rewritten scripture-type texts, and the major Qumran rule scrolls. This study adds a new dimension to that work by comparing the authority claims of the Damascus Document (D) and the Community Rule (S) with those made by Deuteronomy, the Temple Scroll (TS), and Jubilees. While D and S lack the pseudepigraphic self-presentation of the others, they share with them a concern to present themselves as the most authentic expression of God’s revealed will. D and S resemble Deuteronomy in particular in their use of several specific literary techniques to claim authority by means of asserting a close relationship with existing authoritative revelation.

scholarly journals An Experiment on Idem Identity in the Qumran Movement

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Jokiranta
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe debate on the relationship between the Rule of the Community (S) and the Damascus Document (D) can be distorted by concentrating on the differences between the documents, without a clear appreciation of the significance of their mutual correspondences. The concept of Idem identity is here adopted to demonstrate that what the movement was considered to be is at least as important to ask as who its members were considered (and considered themselves) to be (questions of their ipse identity). The movement could be perceived to be the same, persisting overtime, despite various kinds of differences. The article seeks to identify critical elements of diversity allowed within the same movement. An experiment on the Idem identity is provided by looking at the rule documents and the admission in particular. In its shared social identity, the movement seems to depict itself rather in terms of its activities such as counsel and qualifications than particular forms of communities and organizations.

scholarly journals Når Guds engle er onde

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Rikke Hvarregaard Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
Book Of The Watchers

The aim of this article is to re-examine the claim that the Book of Jubilees and two Qumran texts, the Community Rule and the Damascus Document, have been influenced by the myth of the fallen angels as found in the Book of the Watchers. The analysis focuses on the problem of evil and examines of what sin consists, who is held responsible for it, and how human nature is understood. Even if dependence on the Book of the Watchers is likely, the motifs have undergone radical changes in the three other texts, and it would be more precise to describe the influence as limited.

Sectarian Marital Practice: Rethinking the Role of Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-361
Author(s):  
Maxine L. Grossman
Keyword(s):  
Social Norm ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractDead Sea Scrolls scholarship has historically emphasized a binary between the celibate yaḥad of the Community Rule and the marrying edah of the Damascus Document and Rule of the Congregation. An early focus on celibacy has given way in recent years to arguments for the near ubiquity of marriage in the scrolls movement. In place of dichotomies of marriage and celibacy, the complexities of sexuality in the scrolls are best understood in terms of a sexually-limiting sectarian marital practice. This marital practice is grounded in a theology of perfection and is best understood in light of sociological approaches to the evidence in the scrolls. In addition to better explaining the evidence for sexuality in the scrolls, a reading from this perspective may, potentially, shed light on the perennial question of whether the movement began with marriage or celibacy as its prevailing social norm.

Rereading S: A New Model of Textual Development in Light of the Cave 4 Serekh Copies

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Model ◽  
New Model ◽  
Textual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Rule ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractAfter the publication of the Cave 4 copies, reconstructing the textual history of the Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yahad or S) was further complicated. Because of both the divergences and the continuities between these versions, their relationship could no longer be explained by a simple chronological line of development. This paper offers a new, chronological-spatial model that better accounts for the textual history of S. In doing so, it asks larger methodological questions about the study of this text, and by extension, how we unnecessarily read Qumran into S. Using this broader model, we can better resolve yet unexplained dilemmas concerning the relationship between 1QS and the Cave 4 copies.

4QMMT and Paradigms of Second Temple Jewish Nomism

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379
Author(s):  
Albert Hogeterp
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
C 23 ◽  
Covenantal Nomism ◽  
Damascus Document ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Community Rule

AbstractThe article reconsiders 4QMMT's perspective on Torah and justification in view of the recent debate about paradigms of covenantal nomism (E. P. Sanders) and of justification and variegated nomism (D. A. Carson, P. T. O'Brien, M. A. Seifrid). The hortatory part, in particular 4QMMT C 23–32, takes into account divine grace through forgiveness and search for the Torah as normative direction. Human works and divine justification are thereby not conflated in MMT's understanding of Torah. e notion of covenant theology reflected in 4QMMT comes closer to that of the Damascus Document than to the more polarized notion of covenant in the Community Rule.

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