By Matthew A. Collins
This booklet constitutes an exam of key sobriquets chanced on one of the Qumran useless Sea Scrolls. Its basic concentration is literary instead of ancient and concentrates at the functionality of the sobriquets as labels utilised absolutely or negatively in the sectarian compositions. Noting the presence of 'standard' and 'variant' different types of those designations, this learn examines the differing shape and serve as of the sobriquets around the diversity of texts within which they seem. extra particularly, it makes an attempt to illustrate that over the years they underwent a developmental approach, altering in shape and maybe denotation. Adopting a chronological schema that posits a Formative, Early and overdue Sectarian interval, and targeting the sobriquets 'the instructor of Righteousness' and 'the Spouter of the Lie', this research observes a improvement from contextualised scriptural typologies in the direction of titular kinds constituting discrete components of sectarian terminology. A extra basic evolutionary pattern in the direction of a distinct ('standard') shape can also be highlighted, with so-called variations representing prior phases during this approach (further established through a supplementary case learn concerning the sobriquet, 'the Seekers of tender Things').Comparison of those effects with sociological insights, drawing upon the sociology of deviance and 'labelling theory', means that this phenomenon could be understood opposed to a much broader context of labelling practices. hence it truly is confirmed that the sobriquets functionality as instruments for labelling deviance and asserting confident opposite numbers. in addition, it is recommended that the circulate in the direction of certain titular kinds displays a technique of position engulfment, elevated prototypically and the final word acquisition of 'master status'.
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Davies rightly points out that: sects cannot be relied upon to give an authentic account of their own history! They tend to prefer stories in which they are the initiators rather than passive victims, and they will also retroject issues that may arise subsequently into the origin process itself. The only example that needs citing here is the New Testament itself. If Qumran scholarship relies entirely on a rather credulous reading of Qumran texts it will emerge with a sectarian history, not the history of a sect!
This leaves only 4QCatena A and 4QCommGen A, both of which constitute works of scriptural interpretation. 83 4QCommGen A, on the other hand, exhibits traits similar to both those of the ‘thematic pesharim’ (Lim 2002: 16–18) and ‘the legal, narrative, and theological sections of works like the Damascus Document’ (Campbell 2004: 18). How best then to categorize it? On the one hand, we could give precedence to its exegetical character and assign it alongside the pesher material on these grounds (so DSSR).
98. 5 This chapter is, accordingly, to be rather shorter than the two which follow it, though this enforced brevity may in itself be of some significance in our final analysis. In terms of how we shall proceed, while presented with only one text for investigation here, generally speaking with regard to our sectarian periods we shall treat each text to be considered in turn, examining all apparent occurrences of the sobriquets qdch hrwm and bzkh Py+m (along with both ‘variant’ forms and related terminology where appropriate).