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THE SOCIAL LOCATION OF THE VISIONS OF AMRAM (4Q...

The Visions of Amram (4Q543-547)  five copies of an Aramaic text found among the Dead Sea
Scrolls  stems from the pre-Hasmonean period and provides evidence of a highly variegated
society in early Judaism. In this book  Robert R. Duke offers a new reading of all the
fragments and an in-depth discussion of their significance  illuminating a time period in
Jewish history that needs more understanding and culminating in a suggested social location for
its production. Duke concludes that 4Q543-547 was written by a disenfranchised group of priests
who resided in Hebron. The importance of the patriarchal burials  chronology  endogamy  the
figure of Moses  and angelology argue for a priestly group  whose members were also influenced
by apocalyptic thinking. The suggestion of Hebron as the geographical location for this group
is based on the theories of George Nickelsburg's and David Suter's work on 1 Enoch.
Pre-Hasmonean Judaism was an intense time of dialogue and disagreement  and 4Q543-547 is one
more item to consider in reconstructing these social realities.

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