Dice, Stars and Names: Women and Technical Divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Abstract Recent studies demonstrate the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to a wide variety of methods of technical divination. While scholars have analyzed these techniques, women’s involvement in them has not been addressed. I argue that by choosing a methodological perspective that allows women’s presence...

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Main Author: Tervanotko, Hanna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of ancient Judaism
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-70
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls / Woman / Fortune-telling
RelBib Classification:HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Women
B Dead Sea Scrolls
B oracle of the lot
B Physiognomy
B divination- astrology
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