Research Catalog

Title

The social location of the visions of Amram (4Q543-547) / Robert R. Duke.

Author

Duke, Robert R.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2010.

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Details

Description

xii, 174 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• 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 culminting 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. --
• "Robert R. Duke offers an excellent new critical edition of the Visions of Amram. His bold new theses concerning the importance of the figure of Moses, patriarchal burials, chronology, and angelology argue for the disenfranchised priestly group that produced the Visions of Amram. This work shines new light on the shadowy subject of pre-Hasmonean Judaism and is a welcome contribution to the field." William M. Schniedewind, Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, UCLA --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in biblical literature, 1089-0645 ; v. 135

Uniform Title

Studies in biblical literature v. 135.

Subjects

• Electronic books
• History
• Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D
• Dead Sea scrolls > 4Q543-547

Genre/Form

• History
• Electronic books

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction and Methodology -- Introduction and Purpose -- Literature Review -- Methodology and Thesis -- 2.Visions of Amram: New Edition and Discussion -- Introduction -- Episode One: Amram and His Children -- Episode Two: Amram's Charge to Moses -- Episode Three: Amram's Sojourn in Canaan -- Episode Four: Amram's Vision -- Texts with Unidentifiable Episode Placement -- Visions of Amram and 4Q548-549 -- 3.Major Issues in Visions of Amram -- Introduction -- Issues in Visions of Amram -- Chronological Concerns -- Endogamy Concerns -- Endogamy and the Jewish People -- Endogamy and the Priestly Class -- Endogamy and Non-priestly Tribes -- Endogamy and Visions of Amram -- View of Moses -- Two Ways and Angelology -- Two Ways and Angelology in Visions of Amram -- The History of the Two Ways and Angels -- Synthesis -- 4.The Date, Purpose, and Genre of Visions of Amram -- The Date of Visions of Amram -- Orthography and Dating --
• Contents note continued: The Burial of the Sons of Jacob and the Dating of the Document -- Wars in Visions of Amram and the Syrian Wars -- The Purpose of Visions of Amram -- Background Theories -- Visions of Amram: A Hebron Regional Text -- Visions of Amram in its Literary Milieau -- The Genre of Visions of Amram -- Introduction -- The Study of Testaments -- Genre Criticism -- Genre Criticism and the Genre Testament -- Milik's Trilogy? Genre and Regionalism.

ISBN

• 9781433107894 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1433107899 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009036561

OCLC

435802160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library