Qumran and Jerusalem
Subtitle: studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and the history of Judaism
By: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Series: Studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature; Studies in the Dead Sea scrolls and related literature
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9780802849762
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-456) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Qumran scrolls and rabbinic Judaism; title: The scholarly controversy. The many "battles of the scrolls"; title: Literary genres and languages of the Judean scrolls; title: Halakhah and history : the contribution of the Dead Sea scrolls to recent scholarship; title: History, politics, and the formation of the sect. Community without temple : the Qumran community's withdrawal from the Jerusalem Temple; title: Political leadership and organization in the Dead Sea scrolls community; title: The new halakhic letter (4QMMT) and the origins of the Dead Sea sect; title: The place of 4QMMT in the corpus of Qumran manuscripts; title: Jewish law at Qumran. Legal texts in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Codification of Jewish law in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Pre-Maccabean halakhah in the Dead Sea scrolls and the biblical tradition; title: Contemporizing halakhic exegesis in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Halakhic elements in 4QInstruction; title: Religious outlook of the Qumran sectarians. The early history of Jewish liturgy and the Dead Sea scrolls; title: The concept of covenant in the Qumran scrolls and rabbinic literature; title: Holiness and sanctity in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Messianic figures and ideas in the Qumran scrolls; title: The concept of restoration in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Jeruslame in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Qumran sectarians and others. The Pharisees and their legal traditions according to the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum; title: Inter- or intra-Jewish conflict? : the Judaism of the Dead Sea scrolls community and its opponents; title: Non-Jews in the Dead Sea scrolls; title: Language and literature. Pseudepigrapha in the Pseudepigrapha : mythical books in Second Temple literature; title: Second Temple literature and the Cairo Genizah; title: Inverting reality : the Dead Sea scrolls in the popular media.