Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Description
Although significant similarities between 1QHa VI 19-33 and XX 7-XXII, on the one hand, and the concluding hymn of 1QS, on the other, are generally recognized this has not made much impact on the understanding of the social milieu behind any of the texts. The Hodayot texts are generally regarded as “community hymns” whereas the 1QS hymn is rather linked to the leadership of the maskil. In this presentation, I argue that all of these texts stem from the same intellectual milieu and reflect a common elitist self-understanding. Using the socio-cognitive concept of mental contexts, I discuss how perspectives held in independent parts of heterogeneous corpuses like 1QS and 1QHa could help to explain their overriding editorial logic.