Law, Literature, and Society in Legal Texts from Qumran
Subtitle: Papers from the Ninth Meeting of the International Organisation for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789004393370
Subjects: Dead sea scrolls; Qumran community; Jewish law
Description: "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 contributors present new interpretations of long-lived topics, such as the sobriquet "seekers of the smooth things," the Treatise of the Two Spirits, and 4QMMT, and take up new approaches to purity issues, the role of the maśkil, and the Temple Scroll. The volume exemplifies the range of ways in which the Qumran legal texts help illuminate early Jewish culture as a whole"--