4QMMT and / as Hellenistic Literature

Doering Lutz

Forschungsartikel (Buchbeitrag)

Zusammenfassung

This article compares 4QMMT with, and understands it in the context of, Hellenistic literature. It first deals with the use of calendars for politics and then probes the genre of 4QMMT between epistle and treatise, comparing it with official and other corporate letters as well as epistolary treatises, and drawing on structural features of Hellenistic letter closings and epistolary phrases to illuminate 4QMMT. In these respects, MMT shows numerous intriguing similarities with (other) Hellenistic literature. The article is part of a recent trend in scholarship to see Qumran texts enmeshed in the Hellenistic culture of their time rather than to speak of an “influence” of Hellenism on Qumran.

Details zur Publikation

Herausgeber*innenKratz Reinhard G.
BuchtitelInterpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
VerlagMohr Siebeck Verlag
ErscheinungsortTübingen
StatusVeröffentlicht
Veröffentlichungsjahr2020
Sprache, in der die Publikation verfasst istEnglisch
StichwörterHellenistic Literature; Calendar; Law; Official Letter; Epistle; Treatise; Epistolary Treatise; Corporate Letter; Letter Closing; Epilogue; Epistolary Perfect; Philophronesis; Modesty

Autor*innen der Universität Münster

Doering, Lutz

Projekte, aus denen die Publikation entstanden ist

Laufzeit: 01.11.2014 - 31.12.2018 | 1. Förderperiode
Gefördert durch: DFG - Exzellenzcluster
Art des Projekts: Teilprojekt in DFG-Verbund koordiniert an der Universität Münster