Scriptures and sectarianism
Subtitle: essays on the Dead Sea scrolls
By: John J. Collins
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 332; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 332.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9783161532108
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Doctrines; 11.31 texts and translations of the Bible; Dode-Zeerollen; Judaism; Frühjudentum; Dead Sea scrolls; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Biblical teaching; Qumransekte; Relation to the New Testament; Jewish Eschatology; Messiah; 11.26 movements within Judaism; Frühchristentum
Description: "The Dead Sea Scrolls include many texts that were produced by a sectarian movement (and also many that were not). The movement had its origin in disputes about the interperation of the Scriptures, especially the Torah, not in disputes about the priesthood as had earlier been assumed. The definitive break with the rest of Judea society should be dated to the first century BCE rather than to the second. John J. Collins illustrates how the worldview of the sect involved a heightened sense of involvement in the heavenly, angelic world, and the hope for an afterlife in communion with the angels. The essays in this volume are divided into three main sections, dealing with Scripture and Interpretation, History and Sectarianism, and Sectarian Worldview. The opening essay provides an overview of what we have learned from the Scrolls, and the last essay discusses the relation of the Scrolls to early Christianity." DUST JACKET.
Notes: Collection of texts partly published previously.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-305) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what have we learned from the Dead Sea scrolls?; title: The transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism; title: Changing scripture; title: Tradition and innovation in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The interpretation of Genesis in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The interpretation of Psalm 2; title: The book of Daniel and the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Historiography in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Reading for history in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: "Enochic Judaism" and the sect of the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Sectarian consciousness in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Covenant and dualism in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The angelic life; title: The Essenes and the afterlife; title: Prayer and the meaning of ritual in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The eschatologizing of wisdom in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament : the case of the suffering servant.