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1 online resource |
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Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum, 0721-8753 ; 154 Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 154 |
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Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 154.
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Introduction -- The nature of the communities -- Beginnings -- The teacher : from John Wayne to the wizard of Oz -- Looking for beginnings in unexpected places -- The community rule traditions -- Close encounters : the community rule and the Damascus document -- Rules in the context of wisdom and law -- Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond -- The scrolls and the emerging scriptures -- Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered -- Concluding reflections -- The nature of the communities -- Community structures and organization -- Introduction -- Admission process -- Organization -- Property -- Meetings -- Leadership and authority structures -- Communal meals -- Family life and celibacy -- Disciplinary and judicial procedures -- Conclusion -- The Damascus document and 1 QSa -- Introduction -- 1 QSa 1:6-2:11 a and its present context -- I QSa 1:6-2:11 a and the laws of the Damascus document -- 'All-israel' terminology -- Family life -- ... terminology -- The book of Hagi -- Exclusion from the congregation -- Conclusion -- Beginnings -- The Damascus document and community origins -- Introduction -- Discussion of the texts -- CD 1:3-11 a : a first account of community origins in the Damascus document -- CD 2:8b-13 : a second account of community origins in the Damascus document -- CD 3:12b-4:12a : a third account of community origins in the Damascus document -- CD 5:20-6:1 la : a fourth account of community origins in the Damascus document -- Analysis of all four accounts of community origins in the Damascus document -- Emerging communities in the Serekh -- Introduction -- The evidence of the S manuscripts -- Emerging communal life in 1QS 6 -- An emerging community ideology in 1QS 8 -- Expiation restricted to the community (1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) and 4Q258 (4QSd)) -- The evidence of 4Q265 -- The evidence of the Damascus document -- Conclusions and outlook -- Small beginnings or geographical diversity -- Introduction -- Texts, communities, and the site of Qumran -- Yahạd(s) before and outside of Qumran -- 1QS 6:1c-8a : the under-studied enters the limelight -- CD 13:2b-3a : a council-free version of 1QS 6:3 -- Conclusion -- The community rule traditions -- Shifting paradigms concerning the literary development of the Serekh -- Introduction and history of research -- Continuity alongside difference between 1QS and 4QS -- Diversity within 4Q258 (4QSd) -- The many in 1QS -- The council of the community in S -- Conclusion -- Close encounters : The community rule and the Damascus document -- CD 19-20 and the community rule -- Introduction -- CD 20:1-8 and the community rule -- The texts (CD 20:lb-8a and 1QS 8:16b-9:2; 9:8-11a//4Q258 (4QSd) 6 8b.11-12; 7 1-3.7-9) -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Rewritten rule texts -- Introduction -- Points of contact between S and D -- The penal code -- Gatherings of ten -- Admission into the community by swearing an oath -- Maskil headings -- The self designation "the people of perfect holiness" -- Liturgical framework -- Analysis and conclusions -- Rules in the context of wisdom and law -- The rule books and the Qumran wisdom texts -- Introduction -- The questions -- Three Qumran sapiential works -- The book of mysteries -- Instruction -- 4Qways of righteousness -- Wisdom elements in the rule books -- Raz Nihyeh -- The book of Hagi -- The Maskil -- Maskil in instruction -- Maskil in 4Qways of righteousness -- Maskil in the Damascus document -- Maskil in the community rule -- Maskil in 4Q298 (address of the Maskil to the sons of Dawn) -- Conclusion |
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The Damascus document and MMT -- Introduction -- 4QMMT and communal legislation in the Damascus document (d) -- 4QMMT and halakhah in D -- General observations -- Specific texts -- The 4QD material on the disqualification of priests -- The 4QD material on skin disease, flux and childbirth -- 4QD Halakhah dealing with agricultural matters -- Texts expressing concern about defilement through contact with gentiles -- The catalogue of transgressions in 4Q270 (4QDe) -- Conclusion -- The Damascus document and 4QOrdinancesa (4Q159) -- Introduction -- Shared content -- Correspondences in matters of sequence -- Shared scriptural basis -- Shared formal features -- Conclusion -- Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond -- The sons of Aaron -- Introduction -- The Damascus document (d) -- The community rule (s) -- 4Q286 berakhot a -- 4Q279 (4Qfour lots; olim 4QTohorot D) -- 4Q265 miscellaneous rules olim Serekh Damascus -- The rule of the congregation -- The war scroll (M) -- 4QMMT -- Temple scroll -- 4Q174 Florilegium -- 4Q390 Apocryphon of Jeremiah Ce -- 4Q513 ordinances b -- Conclusion -- Consider ourselves in charge : self-assertion sons of Zadok Style -- Introduction -- The Damascus document -- The community rule -- The rule of the congregation -- The rule of blessings -- 4Qpesher Isaiah c -- 4QFlorilegium -- Conclusion -- The scrolls and the emerging scriptures -- The community rule and the book of Daniel -- Setting the scene -- A shared bilingual Milieu -- The book of Daniel and the scrolls as tradents of Danielic traditions -- A claim to exilic roots -- A learned scribal context -- The significance of mystery and interpretation -- Consciousness of proximity with the Angelic realm -- The Maskilim in Daniel 11-12 -- Maskil and Rabbim in the community rule -- The restored title of the rule of the community -- The introduction to the teaching on the two spirits 1QS 3:13-4:26 -- The introduction to 1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) 9//4Q258 (4QSd) I -- The statutes for the Maskil 1QS 9:12-25//4Q256 (4QSb) 18:1-7// 4Q258 (4QSd) 8:1-9//4Q259 (4QSe) 3:6-4:8//4Q260 (4QSf) 1:1-2 -- Conclusion -- The Damascus document and Ezra-Nehemiah -- Introduction -- Ezra-Nehemiah and the Damascus document : some common ground -- Location -- Community -- Issues -- Family and household structures in Ezra-Nehemiah and D -- The authority of the father in arranging marriages according to the Damascus document -- The overseer encroaches on the father's role -- A comparative analysis of the stipulations dealing with the arrangement of marriages in the Damascus document -- Conclusion -- The Serekh tradition in light of post-Qumran perspectives on the emerging Bible -- Introduction -- The literary panorama of the rule manuscripts -- The authority of changing texts : the emerging Bible and the Serekh -- The emerging Bible and the S tradition : inconsistencies welcome! -- A farewell to the End-Serekh -- Conclusion -- The emerging Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls : a common Milieu -- Introduction -- The scrolls as case studies of the ancient jewish literary craft -- The scrolls and the emergence of jewish Sectarianism in the persian period -- The shared scribal Milieu behind the emerging scriptures and the scrolls -- Tracing trajectories from emerging Sectarianism in the Hebrew Bible to incipient communal life attested in the scrolls -- The scrolls and recent research on the development of the Psalter -- A life dedicated to torah scholarship : Ps 1:2, Josh 1:8 and 1QS 6:6b-7a -- Conclusion -- Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered -- 'Haskalah' at Qumran : the eclectic character of Qumran cave 4 -- Introduction -- The Qumran scroll caves -- Qumran cave 4 -- The profile of the Caves -- Distinctive elements in the profile of Qumran Cave 4 -- Texts written in Cryptic Script -- The Maskil and Cave 4 -- Technical learning : the calendar texts -- Multiple attestation -- 4Q477 : the overseer's bookkeeping -- The 'workaday quality'of a number of Cave 4 texts -- 4Q265 miscellaneous rules -- Anthologies and compilations -- Raw data -- Serekh and refinement in Cave 1 -- A preponderance of Papyrus in Cave 4 over against Caves 1 and 11 -- Conclusion -- Cumulative bibliography -- Index of references -- Index of modern authors |
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Hauptbeschreibung Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls the Community Rule has been at the forefront of the scholarly imagination and is often considered a direct channel to life on the ground at Khirbet Qumran - an ancient version of 'reality television'. After the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls one might legitimately have expected that the complete spread of evidence would present us with most of the answers that we have been looking for. Instead, scholars increasingly recognize the significance of the Scrolls as a rich text world from a period when texts, traditi |
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Dead Sea Scrolls Second Temple Judaism Altes Testament Antike |
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Collection of texts published previously |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (Cumulative bibliography) (pages 339-370) and indexes |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Dead Sea scrolls -- History and criticism
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Dead Sea scrolls fast |
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Qumran community.
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Qumran community
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783161527104 |
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3161527100 |
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