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The Social Location of the Visions of Amram (4Q543-547)

The Social Location of the Visions of Amram (4Q543-547)

Duke, Robert R.
Gossai, Hemchand

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Biblical Literature, Book 135

JudaismAncient History GeneralGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1433107899
ISBN13: 9781433107894
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Aug 6 2010
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Visions of Amram (4Q543-547), five copies of an Aramaic text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, stems from the pre-Hasmonean period and provides evidence of a highly variegated society in early Judaism. In this book, Robert R. Duke offers a new reading of all the fragments and an in-depth discussion of their significance, illuminating a time period in Jewish history that needs more understanding and culminating in a suggested social location for its production. Duke concludes that 4Q543-547 was written by a disenfranchised group of priests who resided in Hebron. The importance of the patriarchal burials, chronology, endogamy, the figure of Moses, and angelology argue for a priestly group, whose members were also influenced by apocalyptic thinking. The suggestion of Hebron as the geographical location for this group is based on the theories of George Nickelsburg's and David Suter's work on 1 Enoch. Pre-Hasmonean Judaism was an intense time of dialogue and disagreement, and 4Q543-547 is one more item to consider in reconstructing these social realities.

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