The Qumran legal texts between the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation
By: Kristin de Troyer and Armin Lange (eds.) ; with the assistance of James Seth Adcock
Contributors: De Troyer, Kristin, editor; Lange, Armin, 1961- editor; Adcock, James Seth
Series: Contributions to biblical exegesis & theology -- 61; Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology -- 61.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9789042925359
Subjects: Qumrantexte; Dead Sea scrolls; Bibel; Bible; Halacha; Altes Testament; History; Qumran community; Essenes; Criticism, interpretation; Jewish sects; Jewish law
Description: How do the halakhic texts from Qumran as well as those Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, which attest to legal texts of the Hebrew Bible, lead to a new interpretation and understanding of the Pentateuchal law collections and other legal texts in the Hebrew Bible and how do they help to illuminate the reception history of the Torah? These are the central question of this book. The book consists of three parts: Part I: The Legal Texts from Qumran and the Hebrew Bible, Part II: The Legal Texts from Qumran and Second Temple Judaism and Part III: The Legal Texts from Qumran and Rabbinic Judaism.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-174) and indexes.

8 English, 2 German contributions.
Table of contents: title: The Qumran Pentateuch scrolls :; title: their literary growth and textual history  -- Sidnie White Crawford; title: The rite of the blood on the altar and the hierarchy of sacrifices :; title: Qumran texts, Septuagint and Mishnah as witnesses to a law in evolution  -- Innocent Himbaza; title: Jephtas Gelübde und die Unabwendbarkeit seiner Einlösung  -- Michaela Bauks; title: The Pentateuch and biblical interpretation in the Enoch literature from the second century BCE  -- Loren T. Stuckenbruck; title: Temple scroll and Pentateuch :; title: a priestly debate about the interpretation of the Torah  -- Eckhart Otto; title: Die deuteronomische Fassung des Königsgesetzes und ihre Interpretation innerhalb der Tempelrolle :; title: Rechtshermeneutische Beobachtungen  -- Simone Paganini; title: The hidden and revealed Torah in Philo and Qumran  -- Bernhard Dolna; title: Light from the Qumran scrolls on rabbinic literature  -- Lawrence H. Schiffman; title: Mishnah and Dead Sea scrolls :; title: a reflection on continuity and change  -- Günter Stemberger; title: Examining rabbinic halakha through the lens of Qumran -- Hannah K. Harrington.