The Dead Sea Scrolls : New Insights on Ancient Texts

• Autore: Jassen Alex P
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 pages)
• Disciplina: 296.155
• Altri autori: SchiffmanLawrence H
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism and Christianity -- New Insights on Ancient Texts -- Chapter 2: The Israel Antiquities Authority and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Publication -- Conservation and Preservation -- Documentation and Cataloguing -- Multispectral Imaging -- The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library -- Outcomes from the LLDSSDL -- New Technologies -- Exhibitions -- Excavations and Surveys Conducted by the IDAM and the IAA -- Activities of the Unit for the Prevention of Antiquities Looting -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: A Greek-Style Bath at Qumran? -- Description of the Remains -- Humbert and Chambon's Interpretation -- Hellenistic Baths -- The Nature of the Installations in L34 -- References -- Chapter 4: Purity and Purification in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Miqva'ot of Qumran: The Convergence of Text and Archaeology -- Introduction -- Sectarianism and Ritual Purity and Impurity -- Qumran Sectarian Initiation Rites and Ritual Purity -- Miqva'ot at Qumran -- Water Supply -- Size of Miqva'ot -- Specific Locations -- Women and the Sect -- Partitions -- Conclusion: The Archaeological Evidence and the Texts -- References -- Chapter 5: Identifying the People of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Snapshot One: The Scrolls Before the Scrolls -- Snapshot Two: Sects Before Sectarianism -- Snapshot Three: The Cave 1 Community and the Qumran Essenes -- Snapshot Four: Cave 4 Complications and a Broader World -- Sectarianism and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Naming the Sectarians: A Methodological Recommendation -- References -- Chapter 6: The Scope and Purpose of Encrypted Writing at Qumran -- Brief History of Research -- Survey of the Find -- The Cryptic A Script -- Morphology of the Script. ; How Many Hands Wrote Cryptic A? -- Typology and Chronology of the Cryptic A Script -- Absolute Dating -- The Content of the Cryptic Corpus -- The Purpose of Cryptic Writing -- Coming to Terms with Secrecy in Qumran -- References -- Chapter 7: Scribes, Scrolls, and Stars in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls -- Jews and Judaism in the Early Hellenistic Age -- The Deep Past in the Early Hellenistic Age -- Studying the Cycles of the Moon, Sun, and Stars -- Exorcism, Demonology, and Spirits -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Magic and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospect and Prospect -- Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Magic in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- References -- Chapter 9: Prayer, the Divine, and the Human Self at Qumran -- Introductory Comments on Prayer at Qumran -- Recovering the Particular -- The Self at Qumran-Disembodied or Embodied? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: The Qumran Sectarians in an Imperial Context: A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Introduction -- Historical Context -- The Kittim -- The View of Rome in Pesher Habakkuk -- A Postcolonial Reading of Pesher Habakkuk -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls in Scholarship and Popular Media -- Violence in the Dead Sea Scrolls from Cave 1 -- Edmund Wilson and The Scrolls from the Dead Sea -- John Allegro and the BBC North of England Home Service Radio Broadcasts -- Wilson and Allegro: The Two Great Popularizers Converge -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Dead Sea Scrolls
• ISBN: 9783031531774
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910869169103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The New Antiquity Series