The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/10/12/2017
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Hartog, Pieter B.
Jokiranta, Jutta
year: 
2017
Full title: 

The Dead Sea Scrolls in Their Hellenistic Context

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume: 
24
Issue / Series Volume: 
3
Abbreviated Series Name: 
DSD
Pages: 
339 – 355
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

This introduction aims at situating the contributions of the Thematic Issue into wider debates on Hellenism and Hellenisation and changes taking place in scholarship. Essentialist notions of Hellenism are strongly rejected, but how then to study the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran site during the Hellenistic period? Each contextualisation depends on the (comparative) material selected, and themes here vary from literary genres, textual practices, and forms of producing knowledge, to material culture, networks, and social organizations. All contributors see some embeddedness in ideas and practices attested elsewhere in the Hellenistic empires or taking place because of changes during the Hellenistic period. In this framework, similarities are overemphasized, but some differences are also suggested. Most importantly, the question of Hellenism is a question of relocating Jewish and Judaean evidence in the study of ancient history.

URL: 
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685179-12341442
Label: 
08/01/2018
Record number: 
103 284