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Anti-Essene Traits in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Anti-Essene Traits in the Dead Sea Scrolls ANTI-ESSENE TRAITS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BY M. H. GOTTSTEIN Jerusalem (Isr.) The essence of scholarship is to make the indefinite definite, to find a place for the unknown in the realm of the known. It is therefore rather unpleasant to try to demolish a theory unless one suggests a better in its place. Still, the very fact that one has not an axe to grind might at least enhance one's objectivity. My present undertaking is even more unpleasant, since I am ven- turing outside the field of my main interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls (= DSS) - almost outside my main field altogether. The only excuse which I can offer for this presumption is that this is precisely what most of the scholars engaged in the study of the DSS are doing. No scholar can be expected to possess expert knowledge of all the different problems involved, and when linguists, archeologists etc. begin to speculate upon religio-sociological phenomena, their views are not necessarily authoritative. In their search after a sect known from our history books to whom the DSS (and the Damascus covenant) might be attributed, scholars are divided into four main groups 1). Those http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

Anti-Essene Traits in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 4 (1): 141 – Jan 1, 1954

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Brill
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© 1954 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853354X00127
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Abstract

ANTI-ESSENE TRAITS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS BY M. H. GOTTSTEIN Jerusalem (Isr.) The essence of scholarship is to make the indefinite definite, to find a place for the unknown in the realm of the known. It is therefore rather unpleasant to try to demolish a theory unless one suggests a better in its place. Still, the very fact that one has not an axe to grind might at least enhance one's objectivity. My present undertaking is even more unpleasant, since I am ven- turing outside the field of my main interest in the Dead Sea Scrolls (= DSS) - almost outside my main field altogether. The only excuse which I can offer for this presumption is that this is precisely what most of the scholars engaged in the study of the DSS are doing. No scholar can be expected to possess expert knowledge of all the different problems involved, and when linguists, archeologists etc. begin to speculate upon religio-sociological phenomena, their views are not necessarily authoritative. In their search after a sect known from our history books to whom the DSS (and the Damascus covenant) might be attributed, scholars are divided into four main groups 1). Those

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Published: Jan 1, 1954

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