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| Title: Le conscience de communauté et l'attitude sectaire à Qoumrân: Remarques herméneutiques Secondary Title: FolOr Volume: 25 Pages: 137-142 Type: Journal Article Year: 1988 Abstract: "C.'s study focuses on two words used by the Qumran community to identify itself: habûrah and yaxad. The first term does not appear in Jewish literature outside of Qumran before 70 A.D. In rabbinic texts it identifies the number needed for a Passover sacrificial meal. However, both textual and archaeological evidence indicate that this sacrifice had been "spiritualized" by the Qumran community: its sacrifice was the communal meal, its table the altar, and its dining hall the temenos. The term yaxad denotes an organized assembly. Using M. Eliade's criteria for identifying apocalyptic and messianic groups, C. notes four elements in the sectarian documents that identify the group as apocalyptic: baptism of initiates, a communal meal anticipating the messianic banquet, an asceticism that belies its anticipation of an immediate eschaton, and sectarian hermeneutics based on revealed knowledge. C. further suggests that the Qumran group was one of two Essene communities mentioned by Josephus. However, the effort to fully understand the community's hermeneutics has just begun". - Corrine L. Patton Keywords: Qumran |