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The Dynamics of Dream-Vision Revelation in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

AutorAndrew Perrin
VerlagVandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Erscheinungsjahr2015
Seitenanzahl313 Seiten
ISBN9783647550947
FormatPDF
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Preis89,99 EUR
Among the predominantly Hebrew collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls are twenty-nine compositions penned in Aramaic. While such Aramaic writings were received at Qumran, these materials likely originated in times before, and locales beyond, the Qumran community. In view of their unknown past and provenance, this volume contributes to the ongoing debate over whether the Aramaic texts are a cohesive corpus or accidental anthology. Paramount among the literary topoi that hint at an inherent unity in the group is the pervasive usage of the dream-vision in a constellation of at least twenty writings. Andrew B. Perrin demonstrates that the literary convention of the dream-vision was deployed using a shared linguistic stock to introduce a closely defined set of concerns. Part One maps out the major compositional patterns of dream-vision episodes across the collection. Special attention is paid to recurring literary-philological features (e.g., motifs, images, phrases, and idioms), which suggest that pairs or clusters of texts are affiliated intertextually, tradition-historically, or originated in closely related scribal circles. Part Two articulates three predominant concerns advanced or addressed by dream-vision revelation. The authors of the Aramaic texts strategically employed dream-visions (i) for scriptural exegesis of the antediluvian/patriarchal traditions, (ii) to endorse particular understandings of the origins and functions of the priesthood, and (iii) as an ex eventu historiographical mechanism for revealing aspects or all of world history. These findings are shown to give fresh perspective on issues of revelatory discourses in Second Temple Judaism, the origins and evolution of apocalyptic literature, the ancient context of the book of Daniel, and the social location of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Andrew B. Perrin (PhD, McMaster University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studiesat Trinity Western University in Langley, Canada.

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Cover1
Title Page4
Copyright5
Table of Contents8
Body14
List of Tables13
Abbreviations14
Books, Series, and Journals14
Sigla Used in Dead Sea Scrolls Transcriptions and Citations15
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Aramaic Compositions and Manuscripts15
Acknowledgments18
Foreword20
Chapter One: Mapping the World of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls24
Introduction24
A Corpus or Collection? Dream-Visions and the (Dis)Unity of the Aramaic Texts31
The Direction of This Study38
Part One: Shared Compositional Patterns40
Chapter Two: A Prospectus of Aramaic Dreams and Dreamers42
Introduction42
Compositions Featuring Dream-Visions43
1 Enoch43
Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36)44
Astronomical Enoch (1 Enoch 72–82)45
Book of Dreams (1 Enoch 83–91)47
Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 92–105)48
Birth of Noah (1 Enoch 106–107)48
Book of Giants49
Words of Michael52
Genesis Apocryphon53
Testament of Jacob58
New Jerusalem59
Aramaic Levi Document62
Apocryphon of Levi66
Visions of Amram68
Daniel 2–771
Aramaic Apocalypse73
Four Kingdoms74
Fragmentary Texts Exhibiting Dream-Vision Features75
Prayer of Nabonidus75
4QVision.77
4QpapVision.77
4QVision.78
4QpapApocalypse79
Excursus: Dreaming in Aramaic before and beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls79
Texts Mistakenly Associated with Dream-Vision Revelation83
Tobit83
4QPseudo Daniel.-.84
4QExorcism85
Jews in the Persian Court86
4QVision.?87
Summary of Findings87
Table 1: The Dream-Visions of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls at a Glance I: Prominent Literary Themes, Images, and Motifs89
Chapter Three: Writing Dream-Visions in Aramaic: Common Forms, Structures, Idioms, and Phrases92
Introduction92
Overlapping Terminology for Dreams and Visions93
Table 2: Etymological Survey of Dream Terms in Some Languages of the Ancient Near East95
Formulae Introducing Dream-Visions97
Table 3: A Cross-Section of Dream-Vision Introductory and Concluding Formulae98
Phrases and Idioms Marking Narrative Movement103
Oneirocritical Terminology and Methods107
Awakening Formulae and Responses Elicited by Dream-Visions111
Summary of Findings115
Table 4: The Dream-Visions of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls at a Glance II: Prominent Formal and Philological Features (continued on next page)119
Part Two: Shared Applications of Dream-Visions122
Chapter Four: The Exegetical Underpinnings of Some Pre-Diluvian and Patriarchal Dreamers124
Introduction124
An Enochic Example: Philological Flexibility in Gen 5:22 and 24 and the Root of 1 Enoch’s Expansive Revelatory Tradition126
Uncovering Scripture’s Intimations of Dream-Visions in Genesis Apocryphon129
A Threefold Combination of Verbs Alluding to Revelation in Gen 9:21 and 24: “to reveal (...),” “to awake (...),” and “to know (...)”130
Informing Abram of the Plan behind the Sister-Wife Ruse in Gen 12:11134
From Theophany to Dream-Vision: Harmonizing Gen 12:7, 13:14, and 15:1136
An Underlying Interest in Casting the Patriarchs as Prophetic Dreamers: Are Noah and Abram also among the Prophets?140
Excursus: Curiosities of Composition and Exegesis in Mordecai’s Dream-Vision in Greek Esther Addition A145
Levi’s Visionary Installment as a Priest in Aramaic Levi Document150
The Suggestiveness of Mal 2:5–6: Levi “descended (...)” after “walking with (... ...)” God153
A Complementary Clue in 1 Sam 2:27: The Lord “revealed (...)” Himself to Levi155
Summary of Findings157
Chapter Five: Dreaming of the Temple and Priesthood in This World, the Otherworld, and the World to Come159
Introduction159
An Enochic Example: Revealing the Calendar of the Heavens and Endorsing its Earthly Application in Astronomical Enoch161
Visions of Amram on the Genetics of the Priesthood163
Grafting Amram and Aaron into (Aramaic) Levi’s Priestly Family Tree163
Table 5: Priestly Terminology for Levitical and Aaronide Priesthoods in Aramaic Levi Document and Visions of Amram166
An Otherworldly Endorsement from the Celestial Melchizedek167
Interpreting the Cult: Displaying Sacerdotal Halakhah in New Jerusalem172
Excursus: Temple Authorization Dream-Visions from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Hebrew Scriptures, and Graeco-Roman Antiquity179
Additional Glimpses of Priestly Dreams and Dreamers184
Testament of Jacob: A Partial View of Priestly Precincts, Praxis, and Promises184
Apocryphon of Levi: Envisioning an Eschatological Priest-Saviour186
Summary of Findings189
Chapter Six: (P)Reviewing the Course and Configuration of History through Dream-Vision Revelation191
Introduction191
An Enochic Example: The Scope and Structure of Human History in the “Apocalypse of Weeks”194
The Flood in Historical Retrospect and Prospect198
Urzeit und Endzeit as a Historiographical Principle in Book of Giants198
The Deluge, Lay of the Land, and Eschatology in Noah’s Dream-Vision in Genesis Apocryphon202
The Eras of Empires: Four Kingdom Chronologies from the Exile to the Eschaton211
Daniel 2 and 7: The God of Israel’s Direction of Pagan Dominions211
World History Redux: Retrofitting Rome into the Scheme in Four Kingdoms213
Table 6: Proposed Referents for the Historical Scheme of Four Kingdoms215
Other Views of Geopolitical Upheaval or Succession219
The Culmination of Israelite History in New Jerusalem219
Another Monarch Learns His Place in World History in Aramaic Apocalypse222
Summary of Findings226
Chapter Seven: Overview and Outcomes228
Toward a Description of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls as a Constellation of Texts228
An Enlivened Encounter with the Scriptural Past: Pseudepigraphy, Epistemology, and Dream-Vision Discourses234
The Quest for the Ancient Jewish Apocalypse: Four Prescriptions from the Aramaic Texts239
Table 7: Lists of Apocalypses and Apocalyptically Oriented Texts among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls (continued on next page)241
Closing Thoughts247
Bibliography249
Ancient Sources Index285
Author Index308

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