RT Book T1 Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis T2 Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies A2 Shemesh, Aharon 1953- LA English PP Berkeley PB University of California Press YR 2009 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1655568795 AB Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-yea OP 232 NO Description based upon print version of record CN BM520.52 .S54 2009 SN 9780520945036 SN 0520945034 K1 Dead Sea Scrolls : Dead Sea scrolls : To 1500 K1 Dead Sea Scrolls K1 Jewish Law : History : To 1500 K1 Rabbinical literature : History and criticism K1 Judaism : History : To 70 A.D K1 Qumran community K1 Jewish law -- History -- To 1500 K1 Judaism -- History -- To 70 A.D K1 Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism K1 Religion K1 RELIGION ; Judaism ; Sacred Writings K1 RELIGION ; Judaism ; General K1 Jewish Law K1 Judaism K1 Rabbinical literature K1 Rabbinismus K1 Jüdisches Recht K1 Halacha K1 Dode-Zeerollen K1 Rabbijnse literatuur K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc K1 History K1 Qumran K1 Electronic books : Criticism, interpretation, etc : History