Law, literature, and society in legal texts from Qumran :: papers from the ninth meeting of the International Organization for Qumran Studies, Leuven 2016 /

"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. T...

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Corporate Author: International Organization for Qumran Studies. Meeting
Other Authors: Jokiranta, Jutta (Editor), Zahn, Molly M. (Molly Marie), 1979- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 128.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789004393387
9004393382
ISSN:0169-9962 ;

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