The demonic virus and Qumran studies: Some preventative measures

Dead Sea Discoveries

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 16-32

  Lyons, W J ^a   Reimer, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61949180505     PISSN: 09290761     EISSN: 15685179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156851798X00217     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. D.L. Penney and M.O. Wise, "By the Power of Beelzebub: An Aramaic Incantation Formula from Qumran (4Q560)," JBL 113 (1994) 627
2. J. Frazer, The Golden Bough: A History of Myth and Religion, abridged in one volume by J. Frazer (London: Chancellor Press, 1994 [from MacMillan & Co., 1922 edition]) 49
3. Frazer, Golden Bough, 49-50
4. Malinowski, Magic, Science and Religion, 88
5. Frazer, The Golden Bough, 51
6. The origin of these two terms to characterize magic and miracle is not certain. See, for example, C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink, "Preface," Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, (ed. C.A. Faraone and D. Obbink; New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991) vi
7. H.D. Betz, "Magic and Mystery in the Greek Magical Papyri," Magika Hiera, 244-245
8. M. Meyer and R. Smith, Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Powers [San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994] 2-4)
9. For a more careful reading of the connection between class and magic, see G. Theissen, The Miracle Stories of the Early Christian Tradition, translated by F. McDonagh, (ed. J. Riches; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1983) 240-43
10. On the ancient elitist bias passed on to modern scholars unwittingly see Phillips, "The Sociology of Religious Knowledge," 2690-94, 2716
11. Hull, Hellenistic Magic and the Synpotic Tradition, 51
12. "The Magic of Magic and Superstition," 121-22
13. B. Nitzan, "Hymns from Qumran - 4Q510-4Q511," The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (ed. D. Dimant and U. Rappaport; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992) 53-63
14. "Hymns from Qumran," 59, 61-62
15. and "Knowing as Doing: The Social Symbolics of Knowledge at Qumran," Semeia 59 (1992) 139-53
16. and F.M. Cross, The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies [Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959]
17. For critiques of the procedure, see N. Golb, "Who Hid the Dead Sea Scrolls?," BA [1985] 68-82
18. "The Teacher of Righteousness and 'the End of Days,'" RevQ 13 (1988) 313-17
19. "The Birthplace of the Essenes: Where is "Damascus'?" RevQ 14 (1990) 503-19
20. "Communities in the Qumran Scrolls," PIBA 17 (1994) 55-68
21. DJD 18 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) 10
22. See on this text and the cave 11 copy of the blessing, 11QBer: W.J. Lyons, "Possessing the Land: The Qumran Sect and the Eschatological Victory," DSD 3 (1996) 130-51
23. M.G. Abegg, "Messianic Hope and 4Q285: A Reassessment," JBL 113 (1994) 81-91
24. B. Nitzan, "Benedictions and Instructions from Qumran for the Eschatological Community," RevQ 16/61 (1993) 77-90
25. Cf. "The 4Q Zadokite Fragments on Skin Disease," JJS 41 (1990) 153-65
26. Perhaps the most complete attempt to argue for spirit as human tendency is that of Wernberg-Møller ("A Reconsideration of the Two Spirits," 414-41; see also M. Treves, The Two Spirits of the Rule of the Community," RevQ 3 [1961] 449-52)
27. Critical responses to a view of spirit as human tendency include H.G. May's "Cosmological Reference in the Qumran Doctrine of the Two Spirits and in Old Testament Imagery," JBL 82 (1963) 1-14
28. and J.H. Charlesworth's "A Critical Comparison of the Dualism in 1QS 3:13-4:46 and the 'Dualism' Contained in the Gospel of John," NTS 15 (1968-9) 389-418
29. G.J. Brooke, Exegesis at Qumran (JSOTSup 29; Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1985) 194-97
30. Exegesis at Qumran, 148, 195
31. Wisdom Texts from Qumran, 33
32. "Cave IV, V, VI Fragments," 64-67
33. "The 4Q Zadokite Fragments," 162-65
34. "Cave IV, V, VI Fragments," 61-63
35. M. Baillet, "Qumran Grotte 4," DJD 7 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982) 262-86
36. "Notes on the 4Q Zadokite Fragment on Skin Disease," JJS 42 (1991) 256-59
37. "Notes on the 4Q Zadokite Fragment," 258
38. a (4Q274)," Time to Prepare the Way in the Wilderness, 1-8
39. On 4QPrNab see F. García Martínez, "The Prayer of Nabonidus: A New Synthesis," in his Qumran and Apocalyptic : Studies on the Aramaic Texts of Qumran (STDJ 9; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992) 116-136
40. On 1QapGen see J. Fitzmyer's commentary, The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave I (2nd rev. ed.; BibOr 18A; Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1971)