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Repentance at Qumran

The Penitential Framework of Religious Experience in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Mark A. Jason offers a detailed investigation of the place of repentance in the Dead Sea Scrolls, addressing a significant lacuna in Qumran scholarship. Jason establishes the importance of repentance as a fundamental way of structuring and describing religious experience within the Qumran community. Jason shows that repentance was a central and decisive element in shaping that community's identity and undergirded its religous experience from the start. Comparison with relevant texts from the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha shows that the Qumran community represented a distinctive penitential movement in Second Temple Judaism.
Mark A. Jason is currently presbyter in the Methodist Church at Stirling, Scotland. He studied divinity and served as a presbyter in the Church of South India. After completing his PhD in biblical studies at the University of Aberdeen, he served as coordinator of ministerial formation and theological education in the Methodist Church in Gambia, West Africa.
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