Sectarian Marital Practice: Rethinking the Role of Sexuality in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship has historically emphasized a binary between the celibate yaḥad of the Community Rule and the marrying edah of the Damascus Document and Rule of the Congregation. An early focus on celibacy has given way in recent years to arguments for the near ubiquity of marriage in t...
| Subtitles: | Gender Studies and the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Jutta Jokiranta and Jessica M. Keady |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 339-361 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Marriage
/ Celibacy
/ Sexuality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HD Early Judaism NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Celibacy
B sectarian marital practice B Sociology B Dead Sea Scrolls B Sexuality B Rhetoric B Perfection B Marriage |
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| Summary: | Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship has historically emphasized a binary between the celibate yaḥad of the Community Rule and the marrying edah of the Damascus Document and Rule of the Congregation. An early focus on celibacy has given way in recent years to arguments for the near ubiquity of marriage in the scrolls movement. In place of dichotomies of marriage and celibacy, the complexities of sexuality in the scrolls are best understood in terms of a sexually-limiting sectarian marital practice. This marital practice is grounded in a theology of perfection and is best understood in light of sociological approaches to the evidence in the scrolls. In addition to better explaining the evidence for sexuality in the scrolls, a reading from this perspective may, potentially, shed light on the perennial question of whether the movement began with marriage or celibacy as its prevailing social norm. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341522 |