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Scribal Wisdom and a Biblical Proverb At Qumran

Raymond C. Van Leeuwen

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SCRIBAL WISDOM AND A BIBLICAL PROVERB AT QUMRAN RAYMOND C. VAN LEEUWEN Eastern College Many texts from Qumran are riddled with wisdom-not only the sapiential texts recently published, but also the foundational sectarian documents which have been known for decades. Certain aspects of wisdom in the sectarian texts, however, merit further study, though features of this topic have been explored by scholars from Bardtke and Hengel to Tanzer, Newsom, and Lange.2 This paper examines an important feature of wisdom in key sec- tarian writings. This feature is its learned, literary character, in which a cluster of biblical texts are repeatedly

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SCRIBAL WISDOM AND A BIBLICAL PROVERB AT QUMRAN RAYMOND C. VAN LEEUWEN Eastern College Many texts from Qumran are riddled with wisdom-not only the sapiential texts recently published, but also the foundational sectarian documents which have been known for decades. Certain aspects of wisdom in the sectarian texts, however, merit further study, though features of this topic have been explored by scholars from Bardtke and Hengel to Tanzer, Newsom, and Lange.2 This paper examines an important feature of wisdom in key sec- tarian writings. This feature is its learned, literary character, in which a cluster of biblical texts are repeatedly

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SCRIBAL WISDOM AND A BIBLICAL PROVERB AT QUMRAN RAYMOND C. VAN LEEUWEN Eastern College Many texts from Qumran are riddled with wisdom-not only the sapiential texts recently published, but also the foundational sectarian documents which have been known for decades. Certain aspects of wisdom in the sectarian texts, however, merit further study, though features of this topic have been explored by scholars from Bardtke and Hengel to Tanzer, Newsom, and Lange.2 This paper examines an important feature of wisdom in key sec- tarian writings. This feature is its learned, literary character, in which a cluster of biblical texts are repeatedly

Key concepts: Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Biblical studies, Character (mathematics), Literature, Jewish studies, Key (lock), Philosophy

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