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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Traditional Perspective on the Teacher of Righteousness; 1.2 The New Perspective on the Teacher of Righteousness; 1.2.1 The Theoretical Framework of the New Perspective; 1.2.2 The Interpretive Focus of the New Perspective; 1.2.2.1 An Audience-Oriented Approach; 1.2.2.2 A Historical Approach; 1.3 Purpose of the Study; PART I METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; 2 A Theoretical Approach toward History; 2.1 The Scientific Approach toward Historiography |
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2.2 The Postmodern Critique of Scientific Historiography2.2.1 Poststructuralist Postmodernism; 2.2.2 Challenging the Tenets of Scientific Historiography; 2.2.3 Responses to the Postmodern Critique; 2.3 Scientific Historiography after the Postmodern Critique; 2.3.1 Objectivity within Historiography; 2.3.2 Representation and Truth; 2.4 Historiography and the Teacher Materials; 2.4.1 The Historical Potential of the Ancient Sources; 2.4.2 The Perspectival Nature of the Ancient Sources; 2.4.3 The Interpretive Categories of the Ancient Sources; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 A Mnemonic Approach toward History |
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3.1 Toward an Understanding of Memory Theory3.1.1 The Origins of Collective Memory (Maurice Halbwachs); 3.1.2 The Cultural Dimensions of Memory (Jan Assmann); 3.1.3 Memory's Connection with the Past (Barry Schwartz); 3.2 The Relationship between History and Memory; 3.2.1 Modern Perspectives on the History-Memory Relationship; 3.2.2 The Complimentary Functions of History and Memory; 3.3 Approaching History through Memory; 3.3.1 Previous Attempts; 3.3.2 A Mnemonic-Historical Approach; PART II THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF MEMORY; 4 Dating the Teacher and the Sources |
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4.1 Dating the Written Records of the Teacher of Righteousness4.1.1 The Teacher of Righteousness in the Pesher Habakkuk; 4.1.1.1 Dating the Text of 1QpHab; 4.1.1.2 The Compositional and Transcriptional History of Pesher Habakkuk; 4.1.1.3 Dating the Composition of Pesher Habakkuk; 4.1.2 The Teacher of Righteousness in the Pesher Psalmsa; 4.1.2.1 Dating the Text of 4QpPsa; 4.1.2.2 The Compositional and Transcriptional History of Pesher Psalmsa; 4.1.2.3 Dating the Composition of Pesher Psalmsa; 4.1.3 Assessing the Dates of the Written Records; 4.2 Dating the Teacher of Righteousness |
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4.2.1 Placing the Teacher in the Second Century BCE4.2.2 Placing the Teacher in the First Century BCE; 4.3 Connecting the Teacher and the Sources; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 The Availability of Memory Carriers; 5.1 Estimating the Size of the Teacher's Community; 5.2 Calculating Life Expectancy in the Greco-Roman World; 5.2.1 Life Expectancy from the Ancient Source Materials; 5.2.2 Life Expectancy from the Modern Life Tables; 5.3 Life Expectancy within the Teacher's Community; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 Memory and the Impact of Source Materials; 6.1 The Nature of Intertextuality |
| Summary |
The nature and reliability of the ancient sources are among the most important issues in the scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is noteworthy, therefore, that scholars have grown increasingly skeptical about the value of these materials for reconstructing the life of the Teacher of Righteousness. Travis B. Williams' study is designed to address this new perspective and its implications for historical inquiry. He offers an important corrective to popular conceptions of history and memory by introducing memory theory as a means of informing historical investigation. Charting a new methodological course in Dead Sea Scrolls research, Williams reveals that properly representing the past requires an explanation of how the mnemonic evidence found in the relevant sources could have developed from a historical progression that began with the Teacher. His book represents the first attempt in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship to integrate history and memory in a comprehensive way |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-424) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Dead Sea scrolls. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071139
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Dead Sea scrolls fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108681285 |
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110868128X |
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9781108681285 |
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9781108633659 |
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110863365X |
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1108717624 |
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9781108717625 |
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