Evil within and without
Subtitle: the source of sin and its nature as portrayed in Second Temple literature
By: Miryam T. Brand
Series: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements -- volume 9; Journal of ancient Judaism -- v. 9.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Göttingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783525354070; 9783647654071
Subjects: Das Böse; Qumrantexte; Judaism; Pseudepigraphen; Frühjudentum; Dead Sea scrolls; Bibel; Bible; Apokryphen; Sin; Eigenschaft; Zonde; Criticism, interpretation; Criticism and interpretation; Early works to 1800; Entstehung; Apocryphal books; Het Kwaad; Free will and determinism; Judendom; Synd; Sünde
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 2011 under title: "At the entrance sin is crouching" : the source of sin and its nature as portrayed in Second Temple literature.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-306) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Symbols employed in text transcriptions --; title: Dead Sea Scrolls --; title: Ben Sira (Hebrew) -- -- Introduction; title: Sin, religious thought, and the state of research --; title: The source of sin --; title: Identity --; title: Determinism and free will --; title: Definition of sin --; title: Rationale and method of the present study --; title: Texts included in this study --; title: Terminology --; title: "Sectarian" and "Non-sectarian" texts --; title: Determinism, "Fate, " and the Qumran community --; title: Authors and audiences --; title: Angels and demons --; title: The plan of the present study --; title: Theoretical concerns --; title: The Qumran community --; title: Reading gender in Second Temple works --; title: Textual editions and translations used --; title: The human inclination to sin --; title: Nonsectarian Second Temple prayer and the inclination to sin --; title: 11QPsa col. XXIV (Syriac Psalm 155) : divine assistance against the desire to sin --; title: 4QBarkhi Nafshi : direct intervention in the human condition --; title: The words of the Luminaries : divine assistance --; title: 4QCommunal confession : God's responsibility for sin --; title: Psalms of Solomon : prayer and the need for divine assistance --; title: The road not travelled : prayers without an inclination to sin --; title: Conclusion : innate inclination to sin and inevitability in Nonsectarian prayer --; title: Inclination, physicality, and election in Sectarian prayer --; title: The Hodayot : the physical dimension of sin --; title: The "Hymn of praise" : ongoing sin and chosenness --; title: Sectarian prayer : Hodayot and the Community Rule hymn --; title: Conclusion : Second Temple prayer and the innate inclination to sin --; title: Free will and the inclination to sin in covenantal texts --; title: The Damascus document (CD) II.14-III.12a : freedom of choice and the inclination to sin --; title: CD II. 14-III.12a : a history of sinners --; title: Terminology of sin and choice in CD III.2-12a --; title: Freedom in the context of predestination --; title: The community rule : a "free choice" redaction --; title: The inclination to sin in covenantal texts --; title: The inclination to sin in the book of Ben Sira and the writings of Philo of Alexandria --; title: The book of Ben Sira : textual history --; title: Ben Sira 15:11-20 --; title: The medieval gloss in sir 15:14 : rewriting of a theological argument --; title: The meaning of yēsẹr in the book of Ben Sira --; title: The choice between good and evil in Sir 15:11-20 --; title: Sir 33:7-15 : election and the evildoer --; title: Other references to the source of sin in the book of Ben Sira --; title: Sir 25:24 : original sin or a wicked wife? --; title: Sir 17:31 : pondering evil --; title: Sir 21:11 : controlling one's inclination --; title: Sir 23:2-6 : prayer and sin --; title: Ben Sira's approach to sin --; title: Philo of Alexandria and the inclination to sin --; title: Conclusion : Ben Sira and Philo --; title: After the destruction : 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch --; title: 4 Ezra --; title: Inevitable sinfulness in 4 Ezra --; title: The angel and 4 Maccabees --; title: 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra --; title: Adam's sin in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch --; title: Conclusion : the choice to sin in 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch --; title: Excursus: inclination to sin and the gentile --; title: Demonic influence --; title: Demonic sin and 1 Enoch --; title: Genres and provenance of "Demonic" texts --; title: The watchers myth and 1 Enoch --; title: The watchers in 1 Enoch : the book of the Watchers (chapters 1-36) --; title: 1 Enoch 6-11 --; title: The role of sin in the three traditions of 1 Enoch 6-11 --; title: The watchers myth in 1 Enoch 12-16 --; title: Forbidden knowledge in 1 Enoch --; title: 1 Enoch 19:1-2 : worship of demons --; title: Summary : Watchers in 1 Enoch --; title: Jubilees and demonic sin --; title: The book of Jubilees : textual background --; title: The watchers in Jubilees 4 and 5 : reflection of Genesis 6 and 1 Enoch 10-11 --; title: Jub. 7 : Watchers, the law, and human freedom --; title: Jub. 10 :1-6 : prayer and human helplessness --; title: Mastema : bringing demons into the fold --; title: Mastema and his role in the book of Jubilees --; title: Summary : Mastema in Jubilees --; title: Mastema in the Damascus document --; title: Belial and the nations : a complex view of sin --; title: Abram's prayer : a complex demonic reference in Jub. 7 --; title: Summary and conclusion : Jubilees and the demonic source of sin --; title: Apotropaic prayer and views of demonic influence --; title: The Watchers in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Sectarian Apotropaic prayer --; title: The Watchers and other demons of influence in Sectarian Apotropaic prayer --; title: Songs of the sage (4q510-511) --; title: 4QIncantation (4Q444) --; title: 11 Qapocryphal Psalms (11q11) --; title: The plea for deliverance and Levi's prayer in the Aramaic Levi document --; title: The plea for deliverance --; title: Levi's prayer in the Aramaic Levi document --; title: The rule of demons in the plea and Levi's prayer --; title: Comparison of Sectarian and nonsectarian Apotropaic prayers --; title: Belial in the Damascus document and the War Scroll --; title: Belial in the Damascus document --; title: "Angels of hostility" and belial in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah --; title: Summary : Belial in the Damascus document and the Apocryphon of Jeremiah --; title: Belial in the War Scroll --; title: Conclusion : Belial in the Damascus document and the War Scroll --; title: Belial in liturgical curse texts and the community rule --; title: 4QBerakhot : periodization of demonic evil and evildoers --; title: Belial in the community rule : demonic presence and absence in a covenantal text --; title: 4QCurses (4Q280) : an integrative approach --; title: 4QFlorilegium : a pesher view of Belial --; title: Conclusion: Belial in the Dead Sea Scrolls --; title: Sin and its source in the treatise of the two spirits --; title: 1QS III.13-18a : introduction to the treatise --; title: 1QS III.18b-25a : a central (secondary?) Crux --; title: The visions of Amram --; title: 1QS III.25b-IV.14 : the spirits of light and darkness --; title: 1QS IV. 15-23 : predestination and the Eschaton --; title: 1QS IV. 23-26 : the two spirits and predestination --; title: The redacted treatise --; title: Sources of the treatise --; title: Connection to wisdom thought --; title: Conclusion : "purpose" of the treatise --; title: Summary and conclusions --; title: Genre, free will, and the source of sin --; title: Prayer --; title: Covenantal texts --; title: Wisdom and philosophical literature --; title: Demonic influence and the periodization of evil --; title: Identity --; title: The law versus sin --; title: Gentiles and sin --; title: The treatise of the two spirits and views of sin at Qumran --; title: Adam and "Original sin" --; title: Implications for post-second temple thought ---- Bibliography-- Modern authors index-- Source index-- Subject index.