RT Article
T1 Dice, Stars and Names: Women and Technical Divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls
JF Journal of ancient Judaism
VO 12
IS 1
SP 48
OP 70
A1 Tervanotko, Hanna
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1755519311
AB Abstract Recent studies demonstrate the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to a wide variety of methods of technical divination. While scholars have analyzed these techniques, women’s involvement in them has not been addressed. I argue that by choosing a methodological perspective that allows women’s presence in the texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide an important witness to women’s involvement in various divinatory techniques. By focusing on three avenues to inquire about the divine will: the oracle of the lot, astronomy, and physiognomy, I suggest that apart from being objects of these methods, women were involved in their practice. Women’s participation in technical divinatory techniques is the most noticeable in inquiries that concern their own bodies and matters related to procreation.
K1 oracle of the lot
K1 Physiognomy
K1 divination- astrology
K1 Dead Sea Scrolls
K1 Women
DO 10.30965/21967954-BJA10002