Demonology In The Dead Sea Scrolls And The New Testament

Lichtenberger, Hermann

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004175242.i-326.59

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“…The present age, however, is the time of the reign of Belial, to whom in his inscrutable mysteries God gives space and time for his reign. (Lichtenberger 2009)…”

Section: Origins and Evolutionsmentioning

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Understanding the Demonologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Accomplishments and Directions for the Future

Reynolds

2013

Religion Compass

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This essay examines scholarship on the demonology of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). It places a special focus on how the notions of evil spirits found in the Book of Watchers (1 Enoch 1–36) were adopted, adapted, and reconfigured in various ways in the scrolls. Concepts crucial to many groups within Second Temple Judaism (impurity, dualism, apocalypticism, and monotheism) functioned to influence how the evolving concept of demonic beings was received and deployed in Hellenistic Jewish thought. The DSS provide the largest and most significant data set for analyzing these developments. The essay concludes by suggesting a critical methodological issue for future research on Jewish demonology.

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“…The present age, however, is the time of the reign of Belial, to whom in his inscrutable mysteries God gives space and time for his reign. (Lichtenberger 2009)…”

Section: Origins and Evolutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Demonologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Accomplishments and Directions for the Future

Reynolds

2013

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Magic and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospect and Prospect

Angel

2024

The New Antiquity

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Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Proctor¹

2022

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Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and “Gnostic” writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, “fattened” and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functioned as personifications of “deviant” bodily practices such as “magical” rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and “pagan” religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian “ecosystems,” which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community.

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Demonology In The Dead Sea Scrolls And The New Testament

Cited by 13 publications

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Understanding the Demonologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Accomplishments and Directions for the Future

Understanding the Demonologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Accomplishments and Directions for the Future

Magic and Demonology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Retrospect and Prospect

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

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