“Sectual” Performance in Rule Texts

In this article, I examine descriptions of community meetings in Rule Texts to outline the content, authority, and functions of membership’s oral performance in the sectarian movement associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. In particular, I explore portrayals of oral performance during local chapter m...

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Published in:Dead Sea discoveries
Main Author: Miller, Shem 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sektenregel (Qumran Scrolls) / Gemeinschaftsregel (Qumran Scrolls) / Qumran Community / Text / Performance of / Orality
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Community Rule Damascus Document oral performance
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Summary:In this article, I examine descriptions of community meetings in Rule Texts to outline the content, authority, and functions of membership’s oral performance in the sectarian movement associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls. In particular, I explore portrayals of oral performance during local chapter meetings (1QS 6:1b–7a), nightly study sessions (1QS 6:7b–8a), general membership meetings (1QS 6:8b–13a; CD 14:3b–12a), covenant renewal ceremonies (1QS 1:24–26; CD 20:27–30), admission procedures (1QS 5:7c–9a, 6:13b–23; CD 15:5b–10a), and a meeting of Israel in the last days (1QSa 1:1–6a). Overall, I argue that oral performance consistently played a vital role in members’ lives, whenever and wherever they lived.
ISSN:1568-5179
Contains:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341451