Lost and Stolen Property at Qumran: The “Oath of Adjuration”

This article examines the procedure concerning lost and stolen property that we find in cd-a 9:8-16, with a particular focus on the “oath of adjuration” or “oath-curse” in this passage. This is placed first in the context of the biblical material which, it has long been recognised, had a considerabl...

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主要作者: Czajkowski, Kimberley 1987- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Brill 2016
In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2016, 卷: 47, 發布: 1, Pages: 88-103
Further subjects:B Qumran Damascus Document oath curse legal procedure
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總結:This article examines the procedure concerning lost and stolen property that we find in cd-a 9:8-16, with a particular focus on the “oath of adjuration” or “oath-curse” in this passage. This is placed first in the context of the biblical material which, it has long been recognised, had a considerable impact on the formulation of this procedure. The primary focus, however, is on examining the way in which the oath of adjuration was envisaged to function and what we may learn from this about the operation of justice within the movement. It is argued that the oath relied heavily upon the religious and social ideals of the group but was also in itself an enactment of these ideas, and thus functioned in part as a performative expression of the group identity.
ISSN:1570-0631
Contains:In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340447