Oral Aspects: A Performative Approach to 1QM
As the product of a textual community imbedded in an oral culture, the War Scroll can be rewardingly approached as a composition intended for a community of hearers. Indeed, this article demonstrates that 1QM retained an orally fluid textuality and preserves a variety of textual indicators of perfor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-219 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kriegsrolle (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Performance of
/ Orality
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Dead Sea Scrolls
B Qumran B Performance B textuality B War Scroll B Orality |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | As the product of a textual community imbedded in an oral culture, the War Scroll can be rewardingly approached as a composition intended for a community of hearers. Indeed, this article demonstrates that 1QM retained an orally fluid textuality and preserves a variety of textual indicators of performativity: hints of oral engagement, accumulation of imitable practices, and reliance on rhetorical techniques suited to the ear. In examining the performative potentials in the War Scroll's prescriptive (cols. 1-9), prayer (cols. 10-14), and dramatic (cols. 15-19) material, I argue that 1QM can be understood as a spoken text, one which lends itself to performance and embodiment. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341502 |