Qumran and Jerusalem

by Schiffman, Lawrence H.

• ISBN13: 9780802849762
• ISBN10: 0802849768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-08
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Meeting a need for quality English-language resources on the Dead Sea Scrolls, this series makes available to readers at all levels the best of current Dead Sea Scrolls research, showing how the Scrolls impact our understanding of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Lawrence Schiffman is chairman of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His previous books include Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls and From Text to Tradition: A History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction: The Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism	p. 1
The Scholarly Controversy
The Many “Battles of the Scrolls”	p. 15
Literary Genres and Languages of the Judean Scrolls	p. 44
Halakhah and History: The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Recent Scholarship	p. 63
History, Politics, and The Formation of The Sect
Community without Temple: The Qumran Community's Withdrawal from the Jerusalem Temple	p. 81
Political Leadership and Organization in the Dead Sea Scrolls Community	p. 98
The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect	p. 112
The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts	p. 123
Jewish Law at Qumran
Legal Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 143
Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 170
Pre-Maccabean Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Tradition	p. 184
Contemporizing Halakhic Exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 197
Halakhic Elements in 4QInstruction	p. 204
Religious Outlook of The Qumran Sectarians
The Early History of Jewish Liturgy and the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 219
The Concept of Covenant in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature	p. 235
Holiness and Sanctity in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 256
Messianic Figures and Ideas in the Qumran Scrolls	p. 270
The Concept of Restoration in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 286
Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 303
Qumran Sectarians and Others
The Pharisees and Their Legal Traditions according to the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 321
Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum	p. 337
Inter- or Intra-Jewish Conflict? The Judaism of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community and Its Opponents	p. 353
Non-Jews in the Dead Sea scrolls	p. 365
Language and Literature
Pseudepigrapha in the Pseudepigrapha: Mythical Books in Second Temple Literature	p. 383
Second Temple Literature and the Cairo Genizah	p. 393
Inverting Reality: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Popular Media	p. 411
Bibliography	p. 424
Index of Modern Authors	p. 457
Index of Subjects	p. 464
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 471
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