Defining identities : we, you, and the other in the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the fifth meeting of the IOQS in Groningen / / edited by Florentino Garcia Martinez and Mladen Popovic.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 70
• Author: International Organization for Qumran Studies. Meeting
• TeilnehmendeR: Garcia Martinez, Florentino.; Popovic, Mladen.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English; French
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 70.
• Physical Description: viii, 283 p.
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents

Cultivating identity: textual virtuosity and "insider" status / Maxine L. Grossman -- Constructing "we, you, and the others" through non-polemical discourse / Carol A. Newsom -- Polarized self-identification in the Qumran texts / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- "Old" and "new" Israel in the Bible and the Qumran scrolls: identity and difference / Philip R. Davies -- Emerging communal life and ideology in the S tradition / Charlotte Hempel -- Whom does the term Yahad identify? / Sarianna Metso -- Social identity approach: identity-constructing elements in the Psalms pesher / Jutta Jokiranta -- Eschatological identities in the Damascus document / Albert L.A. Hogeterp -- La regle de la guerre (1QM) et la construction de l'identite sectaire / Jean Duhaime -- Les identites en presence dans les scenes du jugement dernier de 4QInstruction (4Q416 1 et 4Q418 69 ii) / Emile Puech -- Goral versus payis: casting lots at Qumran and in the rabbinic tradition / Francis Schmidt -- Keeping outsiders out: impurity at Qumran / Hannah K. Harrington -- La visite de Dieu dans l'Instruction sur les deux esprits (1QS 3:13-4:26): caracterisation de la communaute de Qumran et de ses ennemis / Andre Gagne -- Creation, eschatology and ethics in 4QInstruction / Grant Macaskill -- "Sicarii Essenes," "The Party of the Circumcision," and Qumran / Robert Eisenman.