Judaism in late antiquity. / 5, : Volume 1, : The Judaism of Qumran : a systemic reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls. : Theory of Israel / / edited by Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, der Nahe und Mittlere Osten, 56. Bd.
• TeilnehmendeR: Neusner, Jacob, 1932-; Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Chilton, Bruce.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 56.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages).
• Notes: Pt. 3, volume 4 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner.; Pt. 5, volume 1-2 edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Jacob Neusner and Bruce D. Chilton.

The authors have asked of the documents of the Dead Sea Library found at Qumran a simple question: how does each participate in a single Judaic religious system? They propose a reading of the Scrolls from the hypothesis that all of them, in one way or another, rest upon one, authoritative, Judaism....

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / Bruce D. Chilton , Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner
• WHAT IS \'A JUDAISM\'?: SEEING THE DEAD SEA LIBRARY AS THE STATEMENT OF A COHERENT JUDAIC RELIGIOUS SYSTEM / Jacob Neusner
• THE CONSTRUCTION OF ISRAEL IN THE SECTARIAN RULE BOOKS / John J. Collins
• THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EVERYDAY LIFE AT QUMRAN / James F. Strange and James Riley Strange
• JEWISH LAW AT QUMRAN / Lawrence H. Schiffman
• PURITY AT QUMRAN: CULTIC AND DOMESTIC / Johann Maier
• WORSHIP, TEMPLE, AND PRAYER IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS / Eileen Schuller
• THE CALENDAR AT QUMRAN / Martin G. Abegg
• WOMEN IN THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF QUMRAN / Mayer I. Gruber.