"This Is the Manner of the Remission": Implicit Legal Exegesis in 11QMelchizedek as a Response to the Formation of the Torah

This article sheds light on the debates that took place in ancient Judaism between sectarian and early rabbinic interpretation of Scripture. Scholarship on 11QMelchizedek (11QMelch; 11Q13) has largely taken the scroll's harmonization of Deuteronomy's Sabbatical debt release (Deut 15:2) wit...

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Authors: Bartos, Michael (Author) ; Levinson, Bernard M. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Scholar's Press 2013
In: Journal of Biblical literature
Year: 2013, Volume: 132, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-371
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