Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns: Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran

Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch

Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns: Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran

Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch

Section of Biblical Exegesis

Abstract

This book attempts to find more sophisticated ways to approach the relationship between the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, in this case the Hodayot prayers, and their socio-historical contexts. It challenges the consensus that the literary heterogeneity of the large cave 1 scroll, 1QHodayota, betrays a community’s division into leadership and ordinary membership. It argues instead that all of the scroll’s quite different looking compositions expressed the sentiments of a unified worshipping community that saw itself as holding a mediating position in the agency of God. Through engagement with an array of methods, most prominently from the field of sociolinguistics, a socio-religious pattern emerges from the collection, which is quite different from hierarchic socio-historical patterns often deduced from the Hodayot and other Dead Sea scrolls.

Translated title of the contribution	Kontekst og mening i 1QHodayota.: Sproglige og retoriske perspektiver på en heterogen salmesamling fra Qumran.
Original language	English

Place of Publication	Atlanta
Publisher	Society of Biblical Literature
Number of pages	313
ISBN (Print)	9781628370546
Publication status	Published - 2015

Series	Early Judaism and its Literature
Volume	42
ISSN	1569-3597

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