To Dierk:
What you have from Johann Maier is hardly obsolete; its very
relevant. But the name of the Teacher is a sobriquet, and the
sobriquets typically use wordplay and double-entendre.
The point I was making is that there is a curious form of
double vision in which 'Sadducee' (of Josephus, 1st BCE)
is distinguished from 'sons of Zadok' (of the scrolls) or in
the case of the sobriquet of the leader, the moreh ha-zedeq.
On the etymology of Sadducee, Schurer has the standard
consensus as from the proper name Zadok, compare 'sons
of Zadok' who are the leaders in 1QS. However Le Moyne
1972 who wrote the book on Sadducees disagreed with
the proper name Zadok etymology (because of a problem
with doubled-D in Greek 'Saddoukoi'). An etymology that
seemed to make sense was North 1955 who proposed
an unattested but otherwise plausible adjective *zaduq as
the basis for the name. But who knows for sure. Either
way, there are plenty of Sadducees, by name, in the Scrolls,
by this way of looking at it. If the name comes from Zadok,
then in 1QS the yachad is ruled by Sadducees (explicitly,
by name). Since the Teacher is surely a Zadokite priest, he
is a 'son of Zadok' or a Sadducee too, and his sobriquet
moreh ha-zedeq would be assumed to be a wordplay on
'Sadducee' (Zadokite). (Just like 'wicked priest' is a pun or
wordplay on 'chief priest', etc.).
But if the name Sadducee comes from zdq, righteousness/justice
itself, as North 1955 argued, then the Teacher is directly
named Sadducee Teacher--which is not in conflict with
Maier's analysis either (for that would be the meaning of the
Sadducee name). (However don't underplay the notion of
the Teacher as head of a personality cult or sect--the
personality cult is pretty basic in the texts that have the
Teacher.)
What is curious is that in Josephus's schematic history of
the late Hasmonean era it is a Pharisee-Sadducee rivalry
(with Hasmonean drama mixed in, invasions, court intrigue,
etc.). Then there are the Qumran texts which are this huge
cache of texts many composed at this very time, and a lot of
scholars think the sobriquet-bearing figures such as the
Wicked Priest, Teacher, etc. are also from this time.
But the Qumran Sadducees and the Josephus Sadducees,
same time, same place, same name--are almost hermetically
sealed as scholarly constructions, as if they exist in *different
worlds*. Le Moyne on Sadducees, for example, gives a
footnote in which he says the Qumran sons of Zadok are
irrelevant to his study of the Sadducees! (His book has strong
work in other ways, but I found that particular footnote amusing.)
It is as if something obvious is being shielded from us by the
spelling 'Sadducee' different from 'Zadok'. But if we read
'priests of Zadok' and 'sons of Zadok' in 1QS as 'Sadducees'
leading the yachad, and the Teacher as a Teacher of
Sadduceeism (by wordplay implication, if not by direct
meaning of the name) it might cause some thinking.
Greg Doudna
<Dierk>
> I've got the impression as if the basic terminology is not yet - or no
> longer - clear to the list. At least there is a clear lack of
terminological
> consensus. Eventually, it's the result of different academic schools.
>
> However, here is what i've learned from Prof. Johann Maier (Cologne):
> Moreh-ha Tsedeq refers to obligatory directive of justice/righteousness.
> Apparently a mosaic office that is not - or hard - to separate from
> (likewise mosaic) authoritative giving of new Torah in a prophetic act of
> revelation (doresh).
> It is, thus, more a concentration on (righteous) Torah by a 'Lawgiver'
than
> on a movement, party or faction led by a 'teacher' that i'd extract from
the
> combination of mwrh and tsdq.
>
> I'm sorry if i have learned already obsolete things.
> Thx for your patience.
>
> Dierk
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