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Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls examines the meaning of the term gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls. While often interpreted as a resident alien, this study of the term as it is employed within scriptural rewriting in the Dead Sea Scrolls concludes that the gēr is a Gentile convert to Judaism. Contrasting the gēr in the Dead Sea Scrolls against scriptural predecessors, Carmen Palmer finds that a conversion is possible by means of mutable ethnicity. Furthermore, mutable features of ethnicity in the sectarian movement affiliated with the Dead Sea Scrolls include shared kinship, connection to land, and common culture in the practice of circumcision. The sectarian movement is not as closed toward Gentiles as has been commonly considered.
Price: $145.00
Pages: 232
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
Publication Date:
26 October 2018
ISBN: 9789004378179
Format: Hardcover
This marvelous volume offers a broad range that opens with a specific terminological problem in the scrolls, then answers it by suggesting a new way to classify the scrolls and by simultaneously highlighting implications of this research for the ancient Mediterranean broadly conceived. The original and meticulous work of this excellent study offer snew and exciting directions for social studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Aryeh Amihay, the Catholic Biblical Quarterly This volume is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the role of conversion within ancient sectarian Judaism. The gērîm represent an important part of how ethnicity was perceived during the Late Second Temple period.
Joseph Scales, SOTS Book List, 2019
Aryeh Amihay, the Catholic Biblical Quarterly This volume is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the role of conversion within ancient sectarian Judaism. The gērîm represent an important part of how ethnicity was perceived during the Late Second Temple period.
Joseph Scales, SOTS Book List, 2019
Carmen Palmer, Ph.D. (2016), University of St. Michael’s College, instructs Biblical Hebrew at Emmanuel College in the University of Toronto. Her publications include an article on scriptural rewriting, and Foreigner and Gentile entries in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.