Legislating the Lips: Revisiting Vows and Oaths in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document
The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11-54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6-12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22-24 and Num 30:3-17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-99 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tempelrolle (Qumran Scrolls) 53
/ Tempelrolle (Qumran Scrolls) 54
/ Damaskusschrift (Qumran Scrolls) 16
/ Bible. Deuteronomium 23,22-24
/ Bible. Numeri 30,3-17
/ Vow
/ Oath
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Numbers
B Deuteronomy B Oaths B Damascus Document B Temple Scroll B annulments B Vows |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11-54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6-12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22-24 and Num 30:3-17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent and links this conclusion with his position that the Temple Scroll is Sadducean and the Damascus Document comes from a later Sadducean splinter group. However, my analysis leads to a different conclusion. I demonstrate that the authors of the Temple Scroll and Damascus Document evidence distinct aims in their appropriations of shared base texts, but not necessarily incongruence nor intentional divergence. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341466 |
