RT Article
T1 Oral Aspects: A Performative Approach to 1QM
JF Dead Sea discoveries
VO 26
IS 2
SP 189
OP 219
A1 Haigh, Rebekah
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1683688058
AB 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.
K1 Dead Sea Scrolls
K1 Qumran
K1 War Scroll
K1 Orality
K1 Performance
K1 textuality
DO 10.1163/15685179-12341502