By Esther G Chazon, Ruth Clements, Avital Pinnick
The papers released during this quantity have been awarded on the 5th Orion overseas Symposium (Jerusalem, 2000), which all in favour of prayer and poetry in mild of the useless Sea Scrolls. the quantity examines the lately released poetical and liturgical texts from Qumran opposed to the heritage of moment Temple Judaism, its biblical antecedents, and later rabbinic advancements.
The essays deal with various prayers and spiritual practices, in addition to significant matters within the background of Jewish liturgy. subject matters variety from magic, mysticism and thanksgiving to lamentation, quickly day rituals, communal worship, and the connection among the prayers from Qumran and the conventional Jewish prayers. the applying of latest Scrolls fabric to this breadth of issues constitutes a huge contribution to the examine of non secular poetry, non secular perform, and liturgy.
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Hdba µxr]a ˆydml hç[ hm war awls ˆb yrmz12 awh dja12 [µhm sjnyp grh] wgrhn ˆydm yklm tçmjw G H I J K L M N O P . . his mercies. He shall not give any other nation his statutes, nor will he adorn them upon any stranger. For . . [covenant] . . their [so]ns, which he cut with Jacob to be with him forever. [For he will not entirely] destroy Israel, by annihilating them by the hand of the nations. All who harm [his] inheritance [will perish] . . and their blood will he demand from their hand. See what he did to Midian; [their] l[and is lost13 .
In isolating these categories, my principle criteria were liturgical function and the kind of religious experience engendered. Other aspects of phenomenology as well as content and literary form were factors in determining a text’s function and in identifying different facets or subcategories of each main type. ”3 As the title of her article indicates, Nitzan distinguishes between two types of human-angelic praise: a cosmological approach characterized by “an experience of harmony with the entire universe,” and a mystical approach characterized by “an experience of mystic communion” between the human and angelic worshippers.
And he gave them into the hand of his people with judg[ments] . . [Mou]nt Bashan . . and all the cities of . . he was clothed with . . who makes his people trust in . . [Is]rael, for he was shattered before him . . his head with a stone of in[ jury]. . 15 The vocalization and translation of µrk here is as yet undetermined. The restoration t[[dl is not without problems; there is no mark of a letter before t[, although it is possible that the surface has peeled, leaving no trace. It ¤ ta trkzw, which is the similarity to Deut 8:18, lyj twç[l jk ˚l ˆtnh awh yk ˚yhla h makes the reading t[dl attractive.