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4j03cz32k6z	Samuel Isaac Thomas	The 'Mysteries' of the Qumran Community: The RAZ-Concept in Second Temple Judaism and in the Dead Sea Scrolls	2008		.txt	text/plain	226	5	22	It characterizes the raz-concept as one that arises out of Israel's prophetic and sapiential traditions, is an important feature of Jewish apocalyptic literature of the mid-late Second Temple period and becomes a central theological and cosmological reference point for the Yahad associated with the manuscript discoveries of Khirbet Qumran. As seen in compositions such as the Community Rule, Pesher Habakkuk, the Hodayot, the War Rule, the Mysteries texts, the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and related works, the content of such knowledge included aspects of both the cosmological structure of the created order and the unfolding of historical (eschatological) time, and such knowledge was evidently guarded by the Yahad as necessary for guiding its communal rationale, structure and praxis.	cache/4j03cz32k6z.txt	txt/4j03cz32k6z.txt