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The Social Role of Liturgy in the Religion of the Qumran Community.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047409151
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Social Role of Liturgy in the Religion of the Qumran CommunityDDC classification:
  • 296.1/55
LOC classification:
  • BM175.Q6 A76 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE LEVELS OF MEANINGS OF LITURGY -- 2. PROVENANCE OF QUMRAN LITURGICAL TEXTS -- 2.1. Orthography and Language -- 2.2. Terminology -- 2.3. Formal Characteristics -- 2.4. Rhetorical Polemic -- 2.5. Problems in Determining Provenance of Liturgy and Prayer -- 3. LITURGICAL USE OF A TEXT -- 4. PLAN FOR THIS STUDY -- CHAPTER ONE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE -- 1. GROUP IDENTITY -- 1.1. Self-designations -- 1.2. Women -- 1.3. Corporate Identity and Hierarchy -- 2. GRID OF IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES -- 2.1. Righteousness and Holiness -- 2.2. Calendar -- 2.3. Proper Speech -- 3. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER TWO RITES OF PASSAGE -- 1. INITIATION AND COVENANT RENEWAL CEREMONY -- 1.1. Preparation -- 1.2. Entrance of New Initiates (1QS 1:16-2:1) -- 1.3. Blessings and Curses (1QS 2:1-18) -- 1.4. Entrance into the Serekh (1QS 2:19-25) -- 1.5. Purification and Instruction (1QS 2:25-4:26) -- 1.6. Rebuke and Dismissal -- 2. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER THREE FEASTS AND FASTS -- 1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR COMMUNAL MEALS AT QUMRAN -- 1.1. Dining Rooms -- 1.2. Animal Remains -- 2. TEXTS ABOUT MEALS -- 2.2. 1QSa 2:17-22 -- 2.3. Tohorat HaRabim -- 2.4. Was there Grace after Meals? -- 3. LITURGICAL CONTEXT -- 4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEAL -- 5. SUMMARY -- 6. EXCURSUS: THE ROLE OF FASTING AT QUMRAN -- CHAPTER FOUR CALENDRICAL RITES -- 1. CALENDAR TEXTS -- 2. EVIDENCE FOR CALENDRICAL RITUALS -- 3. ARTIFACTS RELEVANT TO CALENDRICAL RITES -- 3.1. Sundial -- 3.2. Tefillin -- 4. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO DAILY RITES -- 4.1. Daily Prayers (4Q503) -- 4.2. Words of the Luminaries (4Q504, 4Q506) -- 4.3. 4Q408 - Liturgy on Morning and Evening Prayer -- 4.4. Summary of Daily Rites -- 5. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO SABBATH RITES -- 5.1. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (4Q400-407 -- 11Q17 -- Mas1k) -- 6. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO FESTIVAL RITES.
6.1. Festival Prayers (4Q507, 4Q508, 4Q509 + 4Q505) -- 6.2. Times for Praising God (4Q409) -- 7.MONTHLY RITES -- 8. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER FIVE RITES OF AFFLICTION -- 1. CURSES -- 1.1. 1QS 2:4-18 -- 1.2. 4QBera (4Q286) frg. 7 -- 1.3. Curses (4Q280) frg. 2 -- 1.4. Significance of Curses -- 2. APOTROPAIC PRAYERS AND INCANTATIONS -- 2.1. Apotropaic Prayers -- 2.2. Incantations -- 3. PURIFICATION RITES -- 3.1. Tohorot (4Q274-278 -- 4Q514) -- 3.2. Ritual of Purification (4Q512, 4Q414) -- 3.3. Purification Liturgy (4Q284) -- 4. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER SIX POLITICAL RITES -- 1. RANKING THE MEMBERS -- 2. DISCIPLINE -- 3. AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD -- 3.1. Liturgy of the Tongues of Fire (4Q375, 4Q376, 1Q29) -- 3.2. The War Scroll (1QM, 4Q491-496) -- 3.3. Benedictions (1QSb) -- 4. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER SEVEN RITES OF COMMUNION -- 1. HODAYOT -- 1.1. Liturgical Context -- 1.2. The Hodayot as Rites of Communion -- 2. PSALMS -- 2.1. Communion Elements in 11QPs -- 3. 4Q380-4Q381 -- 4. BARKHI NAFSHI -- 5. SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES.
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Intro -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE LEVELS OF MEANINGS OF LITURGY -- 2. PROVENANCE OF QUMRAN LITURGICAL TEXTS -- 2.1. Orthography and Language -- 2.2. Terminology -- 2.3. Formal Characteristics -- 2.4. Rhetorical Polemic -- 2.5. Problems in Determining Provenance of Liturgy and Prayer -- 3. LITURGICAL USE OF A TEXT -- 4. PLAN FOR THIS STUDY -- CHAPTER ONE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE -- 1. GROUP IDENTITY -- 1.1. Self-designations -- 1.2. Women -- 1.3. Corporate Identity and Hierarchy -- 2. GRID OF IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES -- 2.1. Righteousness and Holiness -- 2.2. Calendar -- 2.3. Proper Speech -- 3. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER TWO RITES OF PASSAGE -- 1. INITIATION AND COVENANT RENEWAL CEREMONY -- 1.1. Preparation -- 1.2. Entrance of New Initiates (1QS 1:16-2:1) -- 1.3. Blessings and Curses (1QS 2:1-18) -- 1.4. Entrance into the Serekh (1QS 2:19-25) -- 1.5. Purification and Instruction (1QS 2:25-4:26) -- 1.6. Rebuke and Dismissal -- 2. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER THREE FEASTS AND FASTS -- 1. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR COMMUNAL MEALS AT QUMRAN -- 1.1. Dining Rooms -- 1.2. Animal Remains -- 2. TEXTS ABOUT MEALS -- 2.2. 1QSa 2:17-22 -- 2.3. Tohorat HaRabim -- 2.4. Was there Grace after Meals? -- 3. LITURGICAL CONTEXT -- 4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEAL -- 5. SUMMARY -- 6. EXCURSUS: THE ROLE OF FASTING AT QUMRAN -- CHAPTER FOUR CALENDRICAL RITES -- 1. CALENDAR TEXTS -- 2. EVIDENCE FOR CALENDRICAL RITUALS -- 3. ARTIFACTS RELEVANT TO CALENDRICAL RITES -- 3.1. Sundial -- 3.2. Tefillin -- 4. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO DAILY RITES -- 4.1. Daily Prayers (4Q503) -- 4.2. Words of the Luminaries (4Q504, 4Q506) -- 4.3. 4Q408 - Liturgy on Morning and Evening Prayer -- 4.4. Summary of Daily Rites -- 5. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO SABBATH RITES -- 5.1. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (4Q400-407 -- 11Q17 -- Mas1k) -- 6. LITURGICAL TEXTS CONNECTED TO FESTIVAL RITES.

6.1. Festival Prayers (4Q507, 4Q508, 4Q509 + 4Q505) -- 6.2. Times for Praising God (4Q409) -- 7.MONTHLY RITES -- 8. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER FIVE RITES OF AFFLICTION -- 1. CURSES -- 1.1. 1QS 2:4-18 -- 1.2. 4QBera (4Q286) frg. 7 -- 1.3. Curses (4Q280) frg. 2 -- 1.4. Significance of Curses -- 2. APOTROPAIC PRAYERS AND INCANTATIONS -- 2.1. Apotropaic Prayers -- 2.2. Incantations -- 3. PURIFICATION RITES -- 3.1. Tohorot (4Q274-278 -- 4Q514) -- 3.2. Ritual of Purification (4Q512, 4Q414) -- 3.3. Purification Liturgy (4Q284) -- 4. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER SIX POLITICAL RITES -- 1. RANKING THE MEMBERS -- 2. DISCIPLINE -- 3. AUTHORITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD -- 3.1. Liturgy of the Tongues of Fire (4Q375, 4Q376, 1Q29) -- 3.2. The War Scroll (1QM, 4Q491-496) -- 3.3. Benedictions (1QSb) -- 4. SUMMARY -- CHAPTER SEVEN RITES OF COMMUNION -- 1. HODAYOT -- 1.1. Liturgical Context -- 1.2. The Hodayot as Rites of Communion -- 2. PSALMS -- 2.1. Communion Elements in 11QPs -- 3. 4Q380-4Q381 -- 4. BARKHI NAFSHI -- 5. SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES.

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