Community, Alterity, and Space in the Qumran Covenant Curses
1QS 2 recounts a ritual in which the community convenes and shares in the annual recitation of blessings and curses for the purpose of reaffirming its communal, ritual boundaries as it is beset on all sides by darkness and transgressive ways. This group needs purifying through the ejection of the mo...
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Dead Sea discoveries
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sektenregel (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Berakhot (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Bible. Deuteronomium 27,12-26
/ Curse
/ Community
/ Space
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Dead Sea Scrolls
curses
spatiality
Rites of Affliction
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | 1QS 2 recounts a ritual in which the community convenes and shares in the annual recitation of blessings and curses for the purpose of reaffirming its communal, ritual boundaries as it is beset on all sides by darkness and transgressive ways. This group needs purifying through the ejection of the morally impure, those whose actions are judged to be ‘out of place.’ Conversely, in 4QBerakhot, the entirety of divinely ordered creation is cited in the blessing of God by the performative community in the heavenly throne room. This latter tradition understands those capable of this heavenly benediction as being sufficiently pure to stand in God’s presence, while Belial and those of his lot are already consigned to their fate in the pit. Thus, given the entirely different ideals and resultant construction of figural space in these two traditions, we are forced to question the equation of their performative contexts. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341453 |