Abstract
The collection of manuscripts from caves around Qumran as a whole appears to be formed by religious texts whose formation has been influenced by other religious texts considered more or less authoritative by collectors. The same authority-conferring strategies can discern in these authoritative texts are used in all other religious texts of collection. Scholars dealing with so-called scrolls found in collection have tried to avoid this impasse by paying attention to authoritativeness of compositions within collection as a whole. The chapter focuses on one of strategies used by compositions authored by groups that put together collection in order to invest their own compositions with same authoritative status of other compositions their authors clearly recognized as authoritative. Author calls this strategy the Voice of Teacher, an expression used twice in Damascus Document . Keywords: authoritative status; authority-conferring strategies; biblical scrolls; Damascus Document ; manuscripts; Qumran
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