History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Williams, Travis B.

doi:10.1017/9781108681285

2019

DOI: 10.1017/9781108681285

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History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Travis B. Williams¹

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Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era

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2024

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This article analyzes the divinatory methods the Jews used to address their questions in the Greco–Roman era. Scholars have previously examined how authors of the Hebrew Bible are aware of numerous divinatory techniques. The texts of the Greco–Roman era, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve even more references illuminating the ancients' interest in divination. In this article, I first address how the texts of the Greco–Roman era present people inquiring about the divine will through inspiration, the lot oracle, astrology, physiognomy, and death oracle. I argue that it was not indifferent which method an individual chose for their inquiry but that each technique served purposes that the ancients knew. As people could typically not access all methods, both the technique and its accessibility were considered when individuals decided how to inquire about their questions.

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Trauma in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C: Cultural Trauma as Forgetful Remembrance of Divine-Human Relations in Qumran Jeremianic Traditions

Hogeterp

2022

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The Qumran Apocryphon of Jeremiah C (4QApocrJer Ca-d; 4Q390) provides reflections on the trauma of devastation, dislocation, and captivity at the time of the Babylonian exile as narrated in the book of Jeremiah. Yet, just as the Damascus Document (CD/4QD), its apocalyptic review of periods goes well beyond the biblical era. This article analyses the narrative discourses of the Apocryphon in comparison with the Damascus Document with the aid of modern theory about cultural trauma, cultural analysis of remembering and forgetting, and recent insights about theodical discourse in the Hebrew Bible. It analyses the recurrent trope of “God hiding his face” in Qumran Jeremianic traditions against broader biblical and early Jewish backgrounds. The article investigates the understanding of reciprocity in human-divine relations and explores how theodicy relates to forgetful remembrance of covenantal relationships. It contends that the Qumran Jeremianic traditions deal with cultural trauma in terms of lament, admonition, theodical discourse, and divisive memory against the historical background of the late Second Temple period, in particular the era of the Maccabean crisis.

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History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Cited by 4 publications

References 559 publications

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Jewish Divination in the Greco–Roman Era

Trauma in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C: Cultural Trauma as Forgetful Remembrance of Divine-Human Relations in Qumran Jeremianic Traditions

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