This essay examines Qumran texts that not only perform blessing but also reflect on the activity of blessing itself, and thereby offer an opportunity to better understand the urge and necessity behind the growth of liturgical cycles that generate traditions of prayer. The paper looks at three texts, the hymns of the maśkîl, the Hymn to the Creator, and 4Q408, in which the performance of blessing is presented as acknowledgment of the creator through the lens of primordial time and the actualization of creation narratives. The essay argues that the way in which divine beings are imagined as perceiving and responding to the act of creation forms a model that liturgical performers emulate in order to approach as much as possible the holiness of these higher beings. This example demonstrates the interaction between interpretation and performance and their impact on the emergence and growth of textual traditions, both oral and written, in the Second Temple period.

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仿神的祈福表现

这篇文章考察了 Qumran 文本，这些文本不仅执行祝福，而且反思祝福本身的活动，从而提供了一个机会来更好地理解产生祈祷传统的礼仪周期增长背后的冲动和必要性。这篇论文看三篇文章，赞美诗马希尔, 赞美造物主, 和 4Q408, 其中祝福的表演是通过原始时间的镜头和创造叙事的现实化来表达对造物主的认可。这篇文章认为，神圣存在被想象为感知和回应创造行为的方式形成了一个模型，礼仪表演者效仿以尽可能接近这些更高存在的圣洁。这个例子展示了解释和表演之间的相互作用，以及它们对第二圣殿时期口头和书面文本传统的出现和发展的影响。