Covenant and Community in Early Rabbinic Literature

This article concerns the role of covenant in early rabbinic literature in relation to biblical and especially Second Temple-era predecessors. The first part establishes that the Qumran sectarians and earlier circles were drawn to the concept of covenant because it represented, especially through th...

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Auteur principal: Novick, Tzvi 1976- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2024
Dans: Harvard theological review
Année: 2024, Volume: 117, Numéro: 2, Pages: 228-249
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Bibel. Altes Testament / Bibel. Deuteronomium 29 / Alliance / Communauté de Qumrân / Littérature rabbinique / Halakha / Droit / Identité de groupe
Classifications IxTheo:AD Sociologie des religions
BH Judaïsme
HB Ancien Testament
HD Judaïsme ancien
XA Droit
Sujets non-standardisés:B Halakah
B Covenant
B Deuteronomy 29
B Qumran
B Identité d’entreprise
B Rabbinic Literature
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Résumé:This article concerns the role of covenant in early rabbinic literature in relation to biblical and especially Second Temple-era predecessors. The first part establishes that the Qumran sectarians and earlier circles were drawn to the concept of covenant because it represented, especially through the mechanism of covenant renewal, a powerful tool for defining and supporting group identity. The second part shows that for the rabbis, the importance of covenant lay chiefly, instead, in its capacity to conceptualize the notion of Israel as a collective body defined by corporate responsibility. The third part suggests that this novel deployment of covenant arose in part to counter the individuating force of halakah as law, another innovation of the rabbis.
ISSN:1475-4517
Contient:Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0017816024000075