Book contents
- Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Reviews
- Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From Contextless Accounts to Holistic Portraits of Violence
- 3 The Beginnings of Violent Conflict
- 4 Sectarian Identity, Intensified Conflict, and the Turn to Violence
- 5 Persecution, Victimhood, and Storytelling in Sectarian Portraits of Present-Time Violence
- 6 Reversal, Reciprocity, and Revenge in Sectarian Fantasies of Eschatological Violence
- 7 Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Subject Index
7 - Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2025
Book contents
- Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Reviews
- Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From Contextless Accounts to Holistic Portraits of Violence
- 3 The Beginnings of Violent Conflict
- 4 Sectarian Identity, Intensified Conflict, and the Turn to Violence
- 5 Persecution, Victimhood, and Storytelling in Sectarian Portraits of Present-Time Violence
- 6 Reversal, Reciprocity, and Revenge in Sectarian Fantasies of Eschatological Violence
- 7 Violent Imaginaries and Practical Violence in the War Scroll
- 8 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Subject Index
Summary
Chapter 7 focuses on the War Scroll, the most sustained portrait of the imagined end-time war against the Sectarian enemies. Alongside its elements of fantasy, the War Scroll simultaneously contains many prescriptive details for the eschatological war that the Sectarians believed was imminent. This chapter characterizes the War Scroll using the language of social anthropologists as a violent imaginary and argues that it functions as a propagandistic tool to prepare the Sectarians for this war.
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- Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls , pp. 198 - 225Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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