Forme testuali fluide al servizio dell’identità qumranica

One of the main features of the Qumran library in each and every of its sectors is undoubtedly the ‎textual fluidity of the various works to be found there.‎ This fluidity has long been recognized among the so-called “biblical” texts from Qumran, and ‎many scholars have remarked how difficult and risky it is to label a given Qumran biblical text as ‎belonging to a given tradition. ‎ This free attitude toward the biblical text is to be found not only in the biblical manuscripts from ‎Qumran but even more in the parabiblical (and not biblical) texts.‎ On the basis of some examples mainly taken from the pesher literature, this paper will try to ‎analyze the way the Qumran group uses this fluid approach to the text of the Scripture in order to ‎elucidate the historical vicissitudes of the group itself and of its leader as well as to provide its own ‎ideological views with a (stronger) Scriptural basis. ‎ The same can be said for the works that have been labelled as sectarian. The redactional history of ‎some of them (1QS, for example) might shed some light on the group’s historical evolution and in ‎particular on the establishment of the Zadokite element within it.‎