Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
Preface to the Third Edition (1987) | |
Introduction | |
Scroll Catalogue | |
List of Abbreviations | |
The Community | p. 1 |
Appendix: The Essenes and the Qumran Community | p. 20 |
The History of the Community | p. 23 |
The Religious Ideas of the Community | p. 41 |
Note on the Texts | p. 65 |
The Community Rule | p. 69 |
The Community Rule | p. 90 |
The Community Rule | p. 93 |
The Damascus Document | p. 95 |
The Damascus Document: Skin Disease | p. 114 |
The Damascus Document: Penal Code | p. 115 |
The Damascus Document: Renewal of the Covenant Ritual | p. 117 |
The Messianic Rule | p. 119 |
The War Rule | p. 123 |
The War Rule from Cave[subscript 4] | p. 146 |
The Rule of War | p. 149 |
The Temple Scroll | p. 151 |
MMT (Some Observances of the Law): Peroration | p. 181 |
The Wicked and the Holy | p. 183 |
[subscript 4]QTohorot (Purities) A | p. 184 |
Curses of Satan and His Lot | p. 185 |
Curses of Melkiresha | p. 186 |
The Thanksgiving Hymns | p. 189 |
The Apocryphal Psalms | p. 237 |
A Messianic Apocalypse | p. 244 |
Poetic Fragments on Jerusalem and 'King' Jonathan | p. 246 |
Lamentations | p. 248 |
The Words of the Heavenly Lights | p. 250 |
Songs for the Holocaust of the Sabbath | p. 254 |
Liturgical Prayer | p. 264 |
Prayers for Festivals | p. 265 |
Daily Prayers | p. 267 |
Blessings | p. 268 |
Purification Ritual | p. 271 |
The Triumph of Righteousness | p. 272 |
The Seductress | p. 273 |
Exhortation to Seek Wisdom | p. 275 |
A Liturgical Work | p. 277 |
A Sapiential Work | p. 278 |
Bless, My Soul | p. 280 |
Songs of the Sage | p. 282 |
Beatitudes | p. 286 |
The Genesis Apocryphon | p. 292 |
A Genesis Commentary | p. 300 |
A Flood Apocryphon | p. 303 |
The Ages of the Creation | p. 304 |
The Testament of Levi | p. 305 |
The Testament of Naphtali | p. 306 |
A Joseph Apoctyphon | p. 307 |
The Testament of Qahat | p. 309 |
The Testament of Amram | p. 311 |
The Words of Moses | p. 314 |
A Moses Apocryphon | p. 316 |
Pseudo-Moses | p. 317 |
The Samuel Apocryphon | p. 319 |
Commentaries on Isaiah | p. 320 |
The New Jerusalem | p. 324 |
Second Ezekiel | p. 327 |
The Prayer of Nabonidus | p. 329 |
The Pseudo-Danielic Writings | p. 330 |
An Aramaic Apocalypse | p. 331 |
Commentaries on Hosea | p. 333 |
Commentary on Micah | p. 335 |
Commentary on Nahum | p. 336 |
Commentary on Habakkuk | p. 340 |
Commentary on Psalms | p. 348 |
Midrash on the Last Days | p. 353 |
Messianic Anthology or Testimonia | p. 355 |
Ordinances or Commentaries on Biblical Law | p. 357 |
The Heavenly Prince Melchizedek | p. 360 |
Consolations or Tanhumim | p. 363 |
'Horoscopes' | p. 367 |
A Brontologion | p. 370 |
The Copper Scroll | p. 372 |
Chronology | p. 379 |
Major Editions of Qumran Manuscripts | p. 382 |
General Bibliography | p. 384 |
Index | p. 386 |
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