The Rule of the Association and Related Texts
Series: Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 July 2024
- ISBN 9780198845744
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 240x160x23 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English 527
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Short description:
The series provides commentaries on the most important of the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume considers the Serek Texts, or the Rule of the Community, which are concerned with the internal organization of the Qumran community, usually identified as the Essenes.
MoreLong description:
The Rule of the Association (1QS; Serek ha-Yahad) is the primary description of the sectarian community described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was one of the first Scrolls published, in 1951. Several related fragmentary scrolls subsequently came to light. This book provides text, translation, and commentary on all these manuscripts, with a substantial introduction that locates the Rule in the context of the sectarian movement.
Distinctive features of this commentary include: presentation of the Hebrew text; treatment of the related manuscripts as texts in their own right, not just as stages in the development of 1QS; recognition that this was a rule for a movement with many settlements and not just for the community that lived at Qumran; recognition of graded levels of holiness within 1QS; recognition of conceptual differences between 1QS and some of the related fragments with regard to the nature and goals of the association; discussion of the broader cultural context of voluntary associations in the Hellenistic world, and the influence of Persian dualism on the Instruction on the Two Spirits in 1QS 3-4.
The commentary also engages the full range of scholarship on the texts known as 1QSa (The Rule of the Community) and 1QSb (The Scroll of Blessings) which were copied on the same scroll as 1QS but appear to have originated separately.
This is a major achievement: the field has waited for proper commentary series for a while. Especially great is to see 1QSa and 1QSb taken into account as part of the same manuscript.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Introductory Statement and Covenant Renewal (1QS 1:1-3:12)
1QS 3:13-4:26. The Instruction on the Two Spirits
Rules of the Association (1QS 5:1-7:25)
1QS 8:1-9:11. An Elite Community
1QS 9:12-11:22. The Maskil
1QSa. The Rule of the Congregation
1QSb.The Scroll of Blessings (1QSb)
Related Fragments from Caves 1, 4, and 5
Introduction and Bibliographic Note
1Q29a
4QSa (4Q255)
4QSb (4Q256)
4QSc (4Q257)
4QSd (4Q258)
4QSe (4Q259 & 4Q319)
4QSf (4Q260)
4QSg (4Q261)
4QSh (4Q262)
4QSi (4Q263)
4QSj
5Q11
11Q29
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