The truth about the Virgin /
"The community that created the Dead Sea Scrolls remains an enigma. These sectarians - or Sons of Truth as they called themselves. Inhabited an imaginative and secret laden landscape replete with hidden allusions, insider, metaphors, esoteric wisdom and mysteries reserved for the elect." &...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The truth about the Virgin / |c Ita Sheres, Anne Kohn Blau ; foreword by David Noel Freedman. |
| 246 | 1 | |i At head of title: |a Sex and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Continuum, |c 1995. | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 236 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Brief: The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Historical highlights -- The interaction between current events and ideology -- The literary record -- Toward chosenness and salvationism -- 1. "Pagan" world surroundings -- Brief: Overview -- The Greco-Roman milieu: Worldliness -- The significance of Egypt: Immortality -- To celebrate: Racial purity -- 2. Of woman born -- Brief: Sectarian misogynism? -- Full of guilt -- A creature of clay -- Signs -- 3. Birth narratives: A forgotten ritual -- Brief: The Nazirite vow and tradition -- Samson and his beautiful hair -- Samson's story at the millennium -- Pseudo-Philo's Samson -- The biblical Samuel -- "Borrowed from Yahweh" -- Later Samuel stories: The light of the people -- Father figure of the Nazirites -- Qumran's Noah: Lineage is the crucial matter -- Holy, wise, saving warriors and the teacher of righteousness -- 4. Speaking in tongues -- The Sirot -- 5. The virgin of the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The truth about the Immaculate Conception, and the Pseudepigraphic romance of Joseph and Aseneth -- Brief: The Hieros Gamos -- Joseph and Aseneth -- 6. Horse power -- Brief: Sex and violence -- Horse myths follow function -- Horses, excessiveness, and the holy books -- The Messianic horseman -- Well bred: The state of ancient medical knowledge -- Egyptian arts and the "House of life" -- Eons -- 7. The sign -- Brief: Everything is connected! -- Qumran's ritual of Immaculate Conception. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "The community that created the Dead Sea Scrolls remains an enigma. These sectarians - or Sons of Truth as they called themselves. Inhabited an imaginative and secret laden landscape replete with hidden allusions, insider, metaphors, esoteric wisdom and mysteries reserved for the elect." "In The Truth about the Virgin, Ita Sheres and Anne Kohn Blau have come closest to unlocking the scrolls' innermost secrets by brilliantly analyzing two unique rituals performed at Qumran that were meant to overcome "sexual pollution": one, the anointing of a select group of males into a life of "angelic" perfection; the second involving a select group of virgin females who were pledged in an immaculate conception ceremony evocative of the great marriage of the ancient Goddess religion. These rituals are described against a background of revolutionary, apocalyptic ideology that abhorred sexuality, prized virginity, was obsessed with purity and defilement, championed male exclusivity and female subordination, and ultimately created its own solution to the problem of the "first sin" - that is, how to procreate without "pollution." And yet these sectarians who preached strict monotheism echoed some of the more mysterious aspects of the repressed Goddess religion."--BOOK JACKET. | |
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