Esoteric wisdom texts from Qumran

G. Brooke
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The dominant approach to sapiential compositions found in the caves at and near Qumran has been based on traditional views of the wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible. The intention here is to look rather at the likely contexts of the transmission of the sapiential literature in the movement that preserved the Scrolls. In so doing, particular attention is given to esoteric writings. The first part of the paper outlines three key factors that indicate how a change of perspective might be justified and facilitated, namely views among biblical scholars that the overarching category of Wisdom Literature has lost much of its heuristic value, early Jewish views on evil and how to deal with it, and views on secrecy in early Judaism. The second major part is a brief consideration of sapiential compositions in the light of those key factors, suggesting a hierarchy of texts to match the social hierarchy and its accompanying hierarchy of knowledge for the group responsible for collecting the Scrolls in the caves at and near Qumran.
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来自库姆兰的深奥智慧文本
在库姆兰及其附近的洞穴中发现的智慧成分的主要方法是基于希伯来圣经中智慧书籍的传统观点。我们的目的是想看看,在保存古卷的运动中,智慧文学传播的可能背景。在这样做时,特别注意深奥的著作。本文的第一部分概述了三个关键因素,表明如何改变观点可能是合理的和促进的,即圣经学者的观点,即智慧文学的总体类别已经失去了它的启发式价值,早期犹太人对邪恶的看法以及如何处理它,以及早期犹太教对秘密的看法。第二个主要部分是根据这些关键因素对智慧成分的简要考虑,提出了一种与社会等级相匹配的文本等级,以及负责在库姆兰及其附近的洞穴中收集卷轴的群体的知识等级。
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期刊介绍: The last twenty years have witnessed some remarkable achievements in the study of early Jewish literature. Given the ever-increasing number and availability of primary sources for these writings, specialists have been producing text-critical, historical, social scientific, and theological studies which, in turn, have fuelled a growing interest among scholars, students, religious leaders, and the wider public. The only English journal of its kind, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha was founded in 1987 to provide a much-needed forum for scholars to discuss and review most recent developments in this burgeoning field in the academy.
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