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The “Mysteries” of Qumran

Mystery, secrecy, and esotericism in the Dead Sea scrolls

Samuel I. Thomas (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2009
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-16923-4 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a new interpretation of the functions of “mystery” language and secrecy in the Qumran scrolls. The texts preserved and composed at Qumran by the apocalyptic group known as the Yaḥad display an interest in revelation, interpretation, and ritual practice, and attest to the active cultivation of esoteric arts such as astrology and astronomy, physiognomy, and therapeutic “magic.” Much like its Babylonian priestly-scribal counterparts, the Yaḥad fostered and guarded its “mysteries”—its store of special knowledge available only to the elect—and used “mystery” terminology (especially raz) to claim authority and to erect social boundaries around themselves as the “men of the vision” and the “house of holiness.” The “Mysteries” of Qumran offers an in-depth semantic analysis of relevant terminology and integrates social-scientific and intellectual-history approaches in focusing on an important motif in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Samuel I. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Religion at California Lutheran University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2009
Reihe/Serie	SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	90-04-16923-7 / 9004169237
ISBN-13	978-90-04-16923-4 / 9789004169234
Zustand	Neuware