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    Torah for ‘The Age of Wickedness’: The Authority of the Damascus and Serekh Texts in Light of Biblical and Rewritten Traditions

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    2013
    Author
    Zahn, Molly M.
    Publisher
    Brill Academic Publishers
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    Article
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    Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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    Considerable attention has been paid recently to the similarities between the composition and development of biblical texts, rewritten scripture-type texts, and the major Qumran rule scrolls. This study adds a new dimension to that work by comparing the authority claims of the Damascus Document (D) and the Community Rule (S) with those made by Deuteronomy, the Temple Scroll, and Jubilees. While D and S lack the pseudepigraphic self-presentation of the others, they share with them a concern to present themselves as the most authentic expression of God’s revealed will. D and S resemble Deuteronomy in particular in their use of several specific literary techniques to claim authority by means of asserting a close relationship with existing authoritative revelation.
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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The original is available at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685179-12341284
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/20211
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1163/15685179-12341284
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    Zahn, Molly M. "Torah for “The Age of Wickedness”: The Authority of the Damascus and Serekh Texts in Light of Biblical and Rewritten Traditions*." Dead Sea Discoveries 20.3 (2013): 410-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685179-12341284

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