Doering Lutz
Forschungsartikel (Buchbeitrag)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.
| Doering, Lutz |
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 |