Law, literature, and society in legal texts from Qumran: papers from the ninth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016
"Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of legal texts and issues in early Judaism, the essays in this collection examine halakhic and rule texts found at Qumran in light of the latest scholarship on text production, social organization, and material culture in early Judaism. T...
| Σύνοψη: | "Reflecting the increasing recognition of the importance of legal texts and issues in early Judaism, the essays in this collection examine halakhic and rule texts found at Qumran in light of the latest scholarship on text production, social organization, and material culture in early Judaism. The contributors present new interpretations of long-lived topics, such as the sobriquet "seekers of the smooth things," the Treatise of the Two Spirits, and 4QMMT, and take up new approaches to purity issues, the role of the maśkil, and the Temple Scroll. The volume exemplifies the range of ways in which the Qumran legal texts help illuminate early Jewish culture as a whole"-- From Ink Traces to Ideology: A Reassessment of 4Q256 (4QSerekh ha-Yaḥadb) Frags. 5a-b and 1QS 6:16-17Yaḥad, Maśkil, Priests and Angels-Their Relation in the Community Rule (1QS); The Reworking of Ezekiel's Temple Vision in the Temple Scroll; The Levites, the Royal Council, and the Relationship between Chronicles and the Temple Scroll; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Modern Authors Intro; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Second Temple Jewish Law in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Widening the Paradigm; Were Scrolls Susceptible to Impurity? The View from Qumran; A New Understanding of the Sobriquet דורשי החלקות : Why Qumranites Rejected Pharisaic Traditions; 4QMMT: A Letter to (not from) the Yaḥad; The Place of the "Treatise of the Two Spirits" (1QS 3:13-4:26) within the Literary Development of the Community Rule; The Literary Development of the "Treatise of the Two Spirits" as Dependent on Instruction and the Hodayot |
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 290 pages), illustrations, maps |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-39338-7 90-04-39338-2 |
