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...

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Veröffentlicht in:Dead Sea discoveries
1. VerfasserIn: Krause, Andrew R. (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2018
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Jahr: 2018, Band: 25, Heft: 2, Seiten: 217-237
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Sektenregel (Qumrantexte) / Berakhot (Qumrantexte) / Bibel. Deuteronomium 27,12-26 / Fluch / Gemeinschaft / Raum
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
HB Altes Testament
HD Frühjudentum
weitere Schlagwörter:B Dead Sea Scrolls curses spatiality Rites of Affliction
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1568-5179
Enthält:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341453