By Matthew A. Collins
This e-book constitutes an exam of key sobriquets came upon one of the Qumran useless Sea Scrolls. Its fundamental concentration is literary instead of ancient and concentrates at the functionality of the sobriquets as labels utilised definitely or negatively in the sectarian compositions. Noting the presence of 'standard' and 'variant' varieties of those designations, this learn examines the differing shape and serve as of the sobriquets around the diversity of texts during which they seem. extra in particular, it makes an attempt to illustrate that through the years they underwent a developmental approach, altering in shape and maybe denotation. Adopting a chronological schema that posits a Formative, Early and overdue Sectarian interval, and targeting the sobriquets 'the instructor of Righteousness' and 'the Spouter of the Lie', this research observes a improvement from contextualised scriptural typologies in the direction of titular varieties constituting discrete parts of sectarian terminology. A extra basic evolutionary pattern in the direction of a distinct ('standard') shape can be highlighted, with so-called variations representing previous levels during this approach (further verified via a supplementary case learn related to the sobriquet, 'the Seekers of tender Things').Comparison of those effects with sociological insights, drawing upon the sociology of deviance and 'labelling theory', means that this phenomenon will be understood opposed to a much broader context of labelling practices. therefore it's proven that the sobriquets functionality as instruments for labelling deviance and declaring confident opposite numbers. additionally, it's endorsed that the circulate in the direction of convinced titular types displays a strategy of function engulfment, elevated prototypically and the last word acquisition of 'master status'.
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Aside from matters of referent or scriptural dependence, both Bengtsson and Fro¨hlich recognize the intrinsic evaluative nature of the designations (Bengtsson 2000a: 30–39, 49–50; Fro¨hlich 1999; 2004). Whether explicitly or implicitly, the sobriquets perform an evaluative function (confirmation of which can often be found in the surrounding context), in that each ‘conveys correctly the author’s estimate of the characters concerned’ (Harris 1966: 53–54). For example, Bengtsson’s socalled ‘circumstantially constructed sobriquets’ (Fro¨hlich’s ‘symbolic names’) are for the most part explicitly evaluative; they reveal something of the character of the person or group labelled.
G. n. 64 above. In particular, see Davies 1992 (also 1996: 151–61); 1994. 78 Even prior to the release of the 4QD material, Davies argued that there was clear evidence of redaction in CD-A (1983). In particular he argued that much of the first column was a later gloss, post-dating the arrival of a historical ‘teacher’. The Sobriquets and the Scrolls 31 specific texts, this redactional process (of unspecified length) can easily heighten confusion as composition is evidently ongoing. 79 In other words, the redactional process is not necessarily limited (or internal) to one body of tradition; varying recensions of one composition might be influenced by those of another, thus creating intrinsic ties between texts that further complicate the issue.
21), also belongs to this compositional period, though this will be examined in Chapter 5. 6 As might, for example, be a danger if we were to examine all references to ‘the Teacher of Righteousness’ across a compositional period and then all references to ‘the Spouter of the Lie’. We cannot, for instance, assume that the D- and H-material categorized as belonging to the Early Sectarian Period share an identical perspective. A comparison of various sobriquet occurrences across different texts within a compositional period can then take place retrospectively.