4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies

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Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/16/06/2018
Reference type: 
Book
Author(s): 
Wold, Benjamin
year: 
2018
Full title: 

4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Issue / Series Volume: 
123
Abbreviated Series Name: 
STDJ
Place of Publication: 
Leiden
Publisher: 
Brill
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

In 4QInstruction: Divisions and Hierarchies, Benjamin Wold challenges the interpretation of 4QInstruction as a deterministic and dualistic composition. In a re-examination of key fragments he offers new reconstructions and translations that indicate 4QInstruction envisaged wisdom available to all humanity, divisions among humankind and communities as the result of individual adherence to wisdom, and a hierarchy of authorities in terms of types of revelation and individual merit.

Record reference: 
Maśkîl and Mēvîn
Spirit and Flesh
Torah and Mysteries
Record number: 
103 677