The Use of Sobriquets in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls

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Copyright: 6/13/2009

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This book constitutes an examination of key sobriquets found among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls. Its primary focus is literary rather than historical and concentrates on the function of the sobriquets as labels utilised positively or negatively within the

Matthew A. Collins is a Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, and is currently based in Berlin where he is involved with the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR).

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Key to Symbols in Translated Passages	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Sobriquets and the Scrolls	p. 5
Introduction	p. 5
Contextualizing the Scrolls	p. 6
Dating the Scrolls	p. 6
An Overview of Sobriquet Hypotheses	p. 8
The Problems with a 'Naïet;ve Historicism'	p. 16
Re-evaluating the Use of Sobriquets in the Scrolls	p. 19
The Nature and Function of the Qumran Sobriquets	p. 19
The Origins of the Qumran Sobriquets	p. 23
Hypothesis and Method	p. 26
Chronologically Ordering the Key Texts	p. 29
Texts under Consideration	p. 29
The Problems with a Chronological Schema	p. 30
Layering the Texts	p. 33
Conclusions	p. 37
Formative Sectarian Period	p. 38
Introduction	p. 38
Sobriquets in the Formative Sectarian Period	p. 39
The (Pre-Yahadic) Damascus Document	p. 39
Conclusions	p. 50
Early Sectarian Period	p. 52
Introduction	p. 52
Sobriquets in the Early Sectarian Period	p. 53
The (Yahadic) Damascus Document	p. 53
The Hodayot	p. 83
4QCommentary on Genesis A	p. 117
Conclusions	p. 122
Late Sectarian Period	p. 125
Introduction	p. 125
Sobriquets in the Late Sectarian Period	p. 125
1QPesher on Habakkuk	p. 125
1QPesher on Micah	p. 157
4QPesher on Isaiahc	p. 161
4QPesher on Psalmsa	p. 163
4QUnidentified Pesher Fragments	p. 176
4QPesher on Psalmsb	p. 176
4QCatena A	p. 178
Conclusions	p. 180
The Development of the Qumran Sobriquets	p. 182
Introduction	p. 182
The Evidence for Sobriquet Development	p. 182
'The Teacher of Righteousness' and 'the Spouter of the Lie'	p. 182
'The Seekers of Smooth Things'	p. 186
Sobriquets across the Scrolls	p. 191
The Problems with this Model	p. 193
The Qumran Sobriquets and the Sociology of Deviance	p. 196
Sociological Approaches to the Scrolls	p. 196
The Sociology of Deviance and Labelling Theory	p. 197
The Qumran Sobriquets and the Acquisition of Master Status	p. 201
Conclusions	p. 206
Conclusions	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 212
Index of References	p. 253
Index of Authors	p. 264
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