Full title
Mapping Fixed Prayers from the Dead Sea Scrolls onto Second Temple Period Judaism
Research notes
Reader Checked|OA 30/04/2014||hw/16/03/2014/not checked
Reference type
Year
2014
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume
21
Issue / Series Volume
1
Abbreviated Series Name
DSD
Pages
39 –63
Work type
Label
24/03/2014
Abstract
When situating fixed prayers from the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus within the broader literary horizons of Second Temple period Judaism a number of discernible features emerge that allow us to group together prayers into clusters or streams of tradition according to a coherence and affinity of ideas. This article focuses on two distinct clusters of prayers: the first is influenced by the type of apocalyptic thinking espoused 1 Enoch, particularly the book’s views on cosmology and angelology; the second is influenced by a penitential theology inspired by the cycle of national reward and punishment that is illustrated in Deuteronomy and by the priestly laws of reparation in Leviticus.