The Qumran Rule texts in context
Subtitle: collected studies
By: Charlotte Hempel
Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 154 -- Texts and studies in ancient Judaism -- 154; Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum -- 154.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9783161527098
Subjects: History and criticism; Qumran community; Dead Sea scrolls
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

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