Pseudepigraphy and First Person Discourse in the Dead Sea Documents : From the Aramaic Texts to Writing of the Yaḥad

Updated by: 
Ariel Kopilovitz
Research notes: 
Reader Checked AK 02/08/2011 OA revised Reader keywords - AK - 17/06/2012
Reference type: 
Book section
Author(s): 
Stuckenbruck, Loren T.
year: 
2011
Full title: 

Pseudepigraphy and First Person Discourse in the Dead Sea Documents : From the Aramaic Texts to Writing of the Yaḥad

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture: Proceedings of the International Conference Held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (July 6-8, 2008)
Issue / Series Volume: 
93
Series Title: 
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Editor(s): 
Roitman, Adolfo D.
Schiffman, Lawrence H.
Tzoref, Shani
Place of Publication: 
Leiden
Publisher: 
Brill
Pages: 
295-326
Abstract: 

This paper examines the significance among the Dead Sea material and other Second Temple literature composed in Hebrew and Greek of several Aramaic documents which were arguably in circulation during the 3rd and the first half of the 2nd century BCE. These works, some of which were not studied in detail until the last fifteen years, have been given the following designations: Visions of Amram (4Q543–548), Aramaic Levi Document (1Q21, 4Q213, 4Q213a, 4Q213b, 4Q214, 4Q214a, 4Q214b), Testament of Jacob (4Q537), the various Enochic books (4Q201–202, 204–206, 4Q207–212, XQpapEn), Book of Giants (1Q23–24, 2Q26, 4Q203, 4Q206a, 4Q530–533, 6Q8), Birth of Noah (1Q20 cols i–v, 4Q212; cf. 4Q534–536), Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242), Pseudo-Daniel (4Q243–245), Daniel (1Q71–72, 4Q112–116, 6Q7), and Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20). While the diversity of these documents resists the confident assignment of composition to authors belonging to any particular group or movement, several recurring themes and motifs (e.g. interest in relationship between patriarchs and foreign kings; antediluvian, post-diluvian, exodus, and exilic times; demonology; instruction; and cosmological and historical apocalyptic ideas) allow us to ascertain something about developments in religious thought during the century leading up to and during the Maccabean revolt, as well as to inquire into why they were brought to the Qumran caves and what influence they exerted there and elsewhere.

Alternative title: 
STDJ
Hebrew bible: 
Book: 
Daniel
Label: 
18/07/2011
Record number: 
10 400