Defining identities : we, you, and the other in the Dead Sea Scrolls : proceedings of the fifth meeting of the IOQS in Gröningen / / edited by Florentino García Martínez and Mladen Popović.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 70.
• Author: International Organization for Qumran Studies. Meeting
• TeilnehmendeR: García Martínez, Florentino.; Popović, Mladen.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 pages)
• Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This volume contains 15 of the papers read at the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS, celebrated in Groningen 27-28 July, 2004. The meeting focused on the identity formation of the group or groups represented in the Scrolls, explored issues of self-definition of Jewish groups in relation to, or in reaction towards other groups within Judaism (“sectarian” identity, inner-Jewish discourses and polemics), and inquired into the development of Jewish identity vis-à-vis other non-Jewish persons, groups or peoples as reflected in the Scrolls.

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 Yaḥad 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 règle de la guerre (1QM) et la construction de l'identité sectaire / Jean Duhaime -- Les identités en présence dans les scènes du jugement dernier de 4QInstruction (4Q416 1 et 4Q418 69 ii) / Émile Puech -- Gôrâl versus payîs: 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): caractérisation de la communauté de Qumrân et de ses ennemis / André Gagné -- Creation, eschatology and ethics in 4QInstruction / Grant Macaskill -- "Sicarii Essenes," "The Party of the Circumcision," and Qumran / Robert Eisenman.