Rabbinic perspectives : rabbinic literature and the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003 / / edited by Steven D. Fraade, Aharon Shemesh & Ruth A. Clements.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 62
• Author: Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature. International Symposium
• TeilnehmendeR: Fraade, Steven D.; Shemesh, Aharon.; Clements, Ruth.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. This is a particularly rich area for comparative study, which has not heretofore received sufficient scholarly attention. While some of the contributions in this volume focus on specific comparative case studies, others address far-reaching issues of historical and comparative methodology. Particular attention is paid to questions of the nature of sectarian and rabbinic law, and how each may elucidate the other. These studies model the directions that need to be pursued in future scholarship on the lines of continuity and discontinuity that connect and differentiate these two literary corpora and their respective religious cultures and social structures.

Table of Contents

Tannaitic Halakhah and Qumran--a re-evaluation / Joseph M. Baumgarten -- Parallels without "parallelomania": methodological reflections on comparative analysis of Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lutz Doerring -- Looking for narrative midrash at Qumran / Steven D. Fraade -- Traces of sectarian Halakhah in the rabbinic world / Vered Noam -- Reconstructing Qumranic and rabbinic worldviews: dynamic holiness vs. static holiness / Eyal Regev -- Prohibited marriages in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Seclusion and exclusion: the rhetoric of separation in Qumran and Tannaitic literature / Adiel Schremer -- The history of the creation of measurements: between Qumran and the Mishnah / Aharon Shemesh -- Oral Torah vs. written Torah(s): competing claims to authority / Cana Werman.