Published: 2021-12-17

The Piety of the Qumran Community

Przemysław Wiszniewiecki
Gdańsk Studies
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2021-025

Abstract

The Qumran Community is still difficult to clasify, ducks out of being defined, doesn’t fit into rigid frameworks of scientific concepts and isn’t easy to describe. However, with no doubt, one of the features that possibly fully characterized that part of the Chosen People, which lived during the late Second Temple Period, was piety. This article shows that piety of the Community in it’s different aspects: cognitive, emotional and practical. Signalizes it’s tangent and separable points with piety of the rest of Israelites; explains how it shaped the identity of the Qumran people; finally analyses how piety regulated their lifes and steered it, becoming a constitutive value for the members of the Dead Sea Community.

Keywords:

Qumran, piety, Temple, The Rule of the Community

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Wiszniewiecki, P. (2021). The Piety of the Qumran Community. Gdańsk Studies, 49, 133–145. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2021-025

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