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4 - “Fleshly Spirit” and “Vessel of Flesh” in 4QInstruction and the Thanksgiving Hymns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2021

Ishay Rosen-Zvi
Affiliation:
Tel-Aviv University
James Aitken
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Hector M. Patmore
Affiliation:
KU Leuven, Belgium
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The Dead Sea Scrolls preserve some of the earliest literature that bears witness to the demonizing of sin and the reification of evil. In two compositions, 4QInstruction (1Q26; 4Q415–18, 423) and the Thanksgiving Hymns, evil yeṣarim are found alongside and interwoven with “flesh” language. Early on in the study of 4QInstruction Elgvin noted a number of distinctive terms shared between these document, including “fleshly spirit” (בשר רוח). In the hymns the expression “vessel of flesh” (יצר בשר) occurs twice (1QHa xviii 25; xxiv 6), and the two terms occur in close proximity in the opening column of 4QInstruction (4Q416 1 16; par.

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