Prophetic Authority and Scribal Anxiety in the Late Second Temple Period
Both the Book of Daniel and the pesher to Habakkuk from Qumran show, in different ways, a sense of scribal anxiety. This anxiety stems from the fact that the scribes who authored these works in the late Second Temple period had to contend with the instability of language, a feature of texts that for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2024, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 722-745 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Concern
/ Anxiety
/ Scribe
/ Azariah
/ Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Hebrew language
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| Further subjects: | B
Daniel 8–9
B 1QpHab 7 B Scribes B Anxiety |
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| Summary: | Both the Book of Daniel and the pesher to Habakkuk from Qumran show, in different ways, a sense of scribal anxiety. This anxiety stems from the fact that the scribes who authored these works in the late Second Temple period had to contend with the instability of language, a feature of texts that for them cut two ways. On the one hand, it allowed them to transform the traditions of their past in new ways that made these traditions present; on the other, it opened up the possibility that these transformations would be superseded in the future. That this possibility of erasure is inherent in interpretation, the very thing that undergirds the scribal enterprise, created for these authors a sense of anxiety around their craft. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a940009 |