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Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Repentance at Qumran: The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Jason, Mark A.

Paperback

Series: Emerging Scholars

JudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 1451485301
ISBN13: 9781451485301
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: Feb 1 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.57 Width: 7.12 Depth: 8.81
Language: English

Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Normally, when the belief system of the community is examined, repentance is usually taken for granted or relegated to a peripheral position. By careful attention to key texts, Jason establishes the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community. Repentance was important not only for entry into the community and covenant but also for daily governance and cultic activities, and even for authenticating understanding of the end times. Jason shows, then, that repentance was a central and decisive element in shaping that communitys identity and undergirded its religious experience from the start. Further, comparison with relevant texts from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha shows that the Qumran community represented a distinctive penitential movement in Second Temple Judaism.

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