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SUMMARY
In this paper, I will look at texts from Qumran 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 these liturgical cycles that generate traditions of prayer. I will look at the hymns of the maśkîl in the Serek and other texts from Qumran 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 third . . .
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