Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Religions
Angaben zur Quelle:
12,8 (2021) pp 26
Keywords:
Dead Sea scrolls Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Damascus document Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Manual of discipline Criticism, interpretation, etc.
;
Qumran community
;
Covenant theology in post-biblical literature
;
Qumran Site (West Bank) Antiquities
Abstract:
Unlike any other group or philosophy in ancient Judaism, the yaḥad sect obliged all members of the sect to leave their places of residence all over the country and gather in the sect’s central site to participate in a special annual ceremony of renewal of the covenant between God and each of the members. The increase of the communities that composed the sect and their spread over the entire country during the first century BCE required the development of the appropriate infrastructure for hosting this annual gathering at Qumran. Consequently, the hosting of the gathering became the main function of the site, and the southern esplanade with the buildings surrounding it became the epicenter of the site.
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