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Main Author: Metso, Sarianna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London T & T Clark ©2007
Series:Companion to the Qumran scrolls 9
Library of Second Temple studies 62
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The Serekh Texts discusses the central rule documents produced by a pious Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea at the turn of the era. The texts describe the life of a highly ascetic group that had rejected the hellenistic Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah. Sarianna Metso introduces the twelve manuscripts of the Community Rule found in Qumran Caves 1, 4 and 5 in terms of their content, textual history, literary function, and significance for the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The w
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 86 pages)
ISBN:9780567392992
0567392996
9780567040923
0567040925

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