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

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-647-55094-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Journal of Ancient Judaism. Supplements

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 is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perrin, Andrew B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Biblische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Body;14
6;List of Tables;13
7;Abbreviations;14
7.1;Books, Series, and Journals;14
7.2;Sigla Used in Dead Sea Scrolls Transcriptions and Citations;15
7.3;Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Aramaic Compositions and Manuscripts;15
8;Acknowledgments;18
9;Foreword;20
10;Chapter One: Mapping the World of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls;24
10.1;Introduction;24
10.2;A Corpus or Collection? Dream-Visions and the (Dis)Unity of the Aramaic Texts;31
10.3;The Direction of This Study;38
11;Part One: Shared Compositional Patterns;40
11.1;Chapter Two: A Prospectus of Aramaic Dreams and Dreamers;42
11.1.1;Introduction;42
11.1.2;Compositions Featuring Dream-Visions;43
11.1.2.1;1 Enoch;43
11.1.2.1.1;Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36);44
11.1.2.1.2;Astronomical Enoch (1 Enoch 72–82);45
11.1.2.1.3;Book of Dreams (1 Enoch 83–91);47
11.1.2.1.4;Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 92–105);48
11.1.2.1.5;Birth of Noah (1 Enoch 106–107);48
11.1.2.2;Book of Giants;49
11.1.2.3;Words of Michael;52
11.1.2.4;Genesis Apocryphon;53
11.1.2.5;Testament of Jacob;58
11.1.2.6;New Jerusalem;59
11.1.2.7;Aramaic Levi Document;62
11.1.2.8;Apocryphon of Levi;66
11.1.2.9;Visions of Amram;68
11.1.2.10;Daniel 2–7;71
11.1.2.11;Aramaic Apocalypse;73
11.1.2.12;Four Kingdoms;74
11.1.3;Fragmentary Texts Exhibiting Dream-Vision Features;75
11.1.3.1;Prayer of Nabonidus;75
11.1.3.2;4QVision.;77
11.1.3.3;4QpapVision.;77
11.1.3.4;4QVision. ;78
11.1.3.5;4QpapApocalypse;79
11.1.4;Excursus: Dreaming in Aramaic before and beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls;79
11.1.5;Texts Mistakenly Associated with Dream-Vision Revelation;83
11.1.5.1;Tobit;83
11.1.5.2;4QPseudo Daniel.-.;84
11.1.5.3;4QExorcism;85
11.1.5.4;Jews in the Persian Court;86
11.1.5.5;4QVision.?;87
11.1.6;Summary of Findings;87
11.1.6.1;Table 1: The Dream-Visions of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls at a Glance I: Prominent Literary Themes, Images, and Motifs;89
11.2;Chapter Three: Writing Dream-Visions in Aramaic: Common Forms, Structures, Idioms, and Phrases;92
11.2.1;Introduction;92
11.2.2;Overlapping Terminology for Dreams and Visions;93
11.2.2.1;Table 2: Etymological Survey of Dream Terms in Some Languages of the Ancient Near East;95
11.2.3;Formulae Introducing Dream-Visions;97
11.2.3.1;Table 3: A Cross-Section of Dream-Vision Introductory and Concluding Formulae;98
11.2.4;Phrases and Idioms Marking Narrative Movement;103
11.2.5;Oneirocritical Terminology and Methods;107
11.2.6;Awakening Formulae and Responses Elicited by Dream-Visions;111
11.2.7;Summary of Findings;115
11.2.7.1;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
12;Part Two: Shared Applications of Dream-Visions;122
12.1;Chapter Four: The Exegetical Underpinnings of Some Pre-Diluvian and Patriarchal Dreamers;124
12.1.1;Introduction;124
12.1.2;An Enochic Example: Philological Flexibility in Gen 5:22 and 24 and the Root of 1 Enoch’s Expansive Revelatory Tradition;126
12.1.3;Uncovering Scripture’s Intimations of Dream-Visions in Genesis Apocryphon;129
12.1.3.1;A Threefold Combination of Verbs Alluding to Revelation in Gen 9:21 and 24: “to reveal (...),” “to awake (...),” and “to know (...)”;130
12.1.3.2;Informing Abram of the Plan behind the Sister-Wife Ruse in Gen 12:11;134
12.1.3.3;From Theophany to Dream-Vision: Harmonizing Gen 12:7, 13:14, and 15:1;136
12.1.3.4;An Underlying Interest in Casting the Patriarchs as Prophetic Dreamers: Are Noah and Abram also among the Prophets?;140
12.1.4;Excursus: Curiosities of Composition and Exegesis in Mordecai’s Dream-Vision in Greek Esther Addition A;145
12.1.5;Levi’s Visionary Installment as a Priest in Aramaic Levi Document;150
12.1.5.1;The Suggestiveness of Mal 2:5–6: Levi “descended (...)” after “walking with (... ...)” God;153
12.1.5.2;A Complementary Clue in 1 Sam 2:27: The Lord “revealed (...)” Himself to Levi;155
12.1.6;Summary of Findings;157
12.2;Chapter Five: Dreaming of the Temple and Priesthood in This World, the Otherworld, and the World to Come;159
12.2.1;Introduction;159
12.2.2;An Enochic Example: Revealing the Calendar of the Heavens and Endorsing its Earthly Application in Astronomical Enoch;161
12.2.3;Visions of Amram on the Genetics of the Priesthood;163
12.2.3.1;Grafting Amram and Aaron into (Aramaic) Levi’s Priestly Family Tree;163
12.2.3.2;Table 5: Priestly Terminology for Levitical and Aaronide Priesthoods in Aramaic Levi Document and Visions of Amram;166
12.2.3.3;An Otherworldly Endorsement from the Celestial Melchizedek;167
12.2.4;Interpreting the Cult: Displaying Sacerdotal Halakhah in New Jerusalem;172
12.2.5;Excursus: Temple Authorization Dream-Visions from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Hebrew Scriptures, and Graeco-Roman Antiquity;179
12.2.6;Additional Glimpses of Priestly Dreams and Dreamers;184
12.2.6.1;Testament of Jacob: A Partial View of Priestly Precincts, Praxis, and Promises;184
12.2.6.2;Apocryphon of Levi: Envisioning an Eschatological Priest-Saviour;186
12.2.7;Summary of Findings;189
12.3;Chapter Six: (P)Reviewing the Course and Configuration of History through Dream-Vision Revelation;191
12.3.1;Introduction;191
12.3.2;An Enochic Example: The Scope and Structure of Human History in the “Apocalypse of Weeks”;194
12.3.3;The Flood in Historical Retrospect and Prospect;198
12.3.3.1;Urzeit und Endzeit as a Historiographical Principle in Book of Giants;198
12.3.3.2;The Deluge, Lay of the Land, and Eschatology in Noah’s Dream-Vision in Genesis Apocryphon;202
12.3.4;The Eras of Empires: Four Kingdom Chronologies from the Exile to the Eschaton;211
12.3.4.1;Daniel 2 and 7: The God of Israel’s Direction of Pagan Dominions;211
12.3.4.2;World History Redux: Retrofitting Rome into the Scheme in Four Kingdoms;213
12.3.4.3;Table 6: Proposed Referents for the Historical Scheme of Four Kingdoms;215
12.3.5;Other Views of Geopolitical Upheaval or Succession;219
12.3.5.1;The Culmination of Israelite History in New Jerusalem;219
12.3.5.2;Another Monarch Learns His Place in World History in Aramaic Apocalypse;222
12.3.6;Summary of Findings;226
12.4;Chapter Seven: Overview and Outcomes;228
12.4.1;Toward a Description of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls as a Constellation of Texts;228
12.4.2;An Enlivened Encounter with the Scriptural Past: Pseudepigraphy, Epistemology, and Dream-Vision Discourses;234
12.4.3;The Quest for the Ancient Jewish Apocalypse: Four Prescriptions from the Aramaic Texts;239
12.4.3.1;Table 7: Lists of Apocalypses and Apocalyptically Oriented Texts among the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls (continued on next page);241
12.4.4;Closing Thoughts;247
13;Bibliography;249
14;Ancient Sources Index;285
15;Author Index;308

Über Autor(innen)

Perrin, Andrew B.
Andrew B. Perrin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada