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Beyond the Qumran Community: The Sectarian Movement of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2010) is a book by John J. Collins.

Abstract

"With the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls, fresh analysis of the evidence presented can be — and indeed, should be — made. Beyond the Qumran Community does just that, reaching a surprising conclusion: the sect described in the Dead Sea Scrolls developed later than has usually been supposed and was never confi ned to the site of Qumran. / John J. Collins here deconstructs “the Qumran community” and shows that the sectarian documents actually come from a text spread throughout the land. He examines the Community Rule, or Yahad, and considers the Teacher of Righteousness, a pivotal fi gure in the Essene movement. After examining the available evidence, Collins concludes that it is, in fact, overwhelmingly likely that the site of Qumran housed merely a single settlement of a very widespread movement."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• The Scholarly Controversy
  • 1. The Many "Battles of the Scrolls"
  • 2. Literary Genres and Languages of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 3. Halakhah and History: The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Recent Scholarship
• History, Politics, and the Formation of the Sect
  • 4. Community without Temple: The Qumran Community's withdrawal from the Jerusalem Temple
  • 5. Political Leadership and Organization in the Dead Sea Scrolls Community
  • 6. The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect
  • 7. The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts
• Jewish Law at Qumran
  • 8. Legal Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 9. Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 10. Pre-Maccabean Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Tradition
  • 11. Contemporizing Halakhic Exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 12. Halakhic Elements in 4QInstruction
• Religious Outlook of the Qumran Sectarians
  • 13. The Early History of Jewish Liturgy and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 14. The Concept of Covenant in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
  • 15. Holiness and Sanctity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 16. Messianic Figures and Ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 17. The Concept of Restoration in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 18. Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Qumran Sectarians and Others
  • 19. The Pharisees and their Legal Traditions According to the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 20. Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum
  • 21. Inter- or Intra-Jewish Conflict? The Judaism of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community and Its Opponents
  • 22. Non-Jews in the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Language and Literature
  • 23. Pseudepigrapha in the Pseudepigrapha: Mythical Books in Second Temple Literature
  • 24. Second Temple Literature and the Cairo Genizah
  • 25. Inverting Reality: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Popular Media

External links

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