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.

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 t...

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Superior document:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 70.
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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.
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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.