Law, literature, and society in legal texts from Qumran : : papers from the ninth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016 / / edited by Jutta Jokiranta [and] Molly Zahn.

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 con...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 128.
Physical Description:1 online resource (306 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Introduction and Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Second Temple Jewish Law in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Widening the Paradigm / Lawrence H. Schiffman
  • Were Scrolls Susceptible to Impurity? The View from Qumran / Dennis Mizzi
  • A New Understanding of the Sobriquet דורשי החלקות: Why Qumranites Rejected Pharisaic Traditions / Harry Fox
  • 4QMMT: A Letter to (not from) the Yaḥad / Gareth Wearne
  • The Place of the “Treatise of the Two Spirits” (1QS 3:13–4:26) within the Literary Development of the Community Rule / Peter Porzig
  • The Literary Development of the “Treatise of the Two Spirits” as Dependent on Instruction and the Hodayot / Meike Christian
  • From Ink Traces to Ideology: A Reassessment of 4Q256 (4QSerekh ha-Yaḥadb) Frags. 5a–b and 1QS 6:16–17 / James M. Tucker
  • Yaḥad, Maśkil, Priests and Angels—Their Relation in the Community Rule (1QS) / Michael R. Jost
  • The Reworking of Ezekiel’s Temple Vision in the Temple Scroll / Tova Ganzel
  • The Levites, the Royal Council, and the Relationship between Chronicles and the Temple Scroll / Molly M. Zahn
  • Back Matter
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors.