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Jutta Jokiranta and Molly M Zahn (eds.), Law, Literature, and Society in Legal Texts from Qumran (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 128; Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Abstract

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. 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 maskil, 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"--Publisher description.

Contents

Introduction and acknowledgements -- Second Temple Jewish law in light of the Dead Sea scrolls : widening the paradigm / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Were scrolls susceptible to impurity? : the view from Qumran / Dennis Mizzi -- A new understanding of the sobriquet [dorshe halaqot] : why Qumranites rejected Pharisaic traditions / Harry Fox -- 4QMMT : a letter to (not from) the yahad / Gareth Wearne -- The place of the "Treatise of the two spirits" (1QS 3:13-4:26) within the literary development of the Community rule / Peter Porzig -- The literary development of the "Treatise of the two spirits" as dependent on Instruction and the Hodayot / Meike Christian -- From ink traces to ideology : a reassessment of 4Q256 (4QSerekh ha-Yahadb) frags. 5a-b and 1QS 6:16-17 / James M. Tucker -- Yahad, maskil, priests and angels : their relation in the Community rule (1QS) / Michael R. Jost -- The reworking of Ezekiel's temple vision in the Temple scroll / Tova Ganzel -- The Levites, the royal council, and the relationship between Chronicles and the Temple scroll / Molly M. Zahn.

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