The Utopian Vision of the Temple Scroll
Although the Temple Scroll’s divinely-commanded temple plan has frequently been described as “utopian,” there has been no sustained attempt to analyze the scroll in light of other texts that have been described as utopias/utopian, or in connection with utopian studies. This article aims to start tha...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of ancient Judaism
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 392-416 |
Further subjects: | B
utopian studies
B Law B Temple B Utopia B Ezekiel B Pentateuch B Temple Scroll |
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Summary: | Although the Temple Scroll’s divinely-commanded temple plan has frequently been described as “utopian,” there has been no sustained attempt to analyze the scroll in light of other texts that have been described as utopias/utopian, or in connection with utopian studies. This article aims to start that conversation, considering what insights about the purpose and function of the Temple Scroll might be gained from approaching it as a utopia. Such an approach demonstrates that the scroll’s temple is best understood not as a concrete plan for direct reform, but as an imagined counterfactual world, constituted through legal discourse, through which the composers sought to reflect on and respond to their current realities. |
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ISSN: | 2196-7954 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of ancient Judaism
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30965/21967954-bja10047 |