Memory And Oblivion by Rachel Elior
A provocative reinterpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls that argues they preserve the memory of a displaced priestly tradition rather than an Essene sect, tracing how temple-centered theology, a solar calendar, and angelic liturgy were marginalized by Hasmonean rule and later rabbinic dominance. Through close readings of texts and the politics of memory, it explores how ritual, law, and cosmology were preserved, reconfigured, or forgotten, illuminating the processes by which Second Temple Jewish traditions were transmitted, suppressed, and canonized.
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