Beyond the Qumran Community (2010 Collins), book
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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 and translations
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