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Author: Steven Fraade
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 9004201092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the ancient writings of the Dead Sea Scrolls and early rabbinic Judaism, this book comprises studies that explore the intersections of scriptural interpretation, narrative fiction, and legal rhetoric. It proposes and models methods of a non-reductive historiography for each of these communities and for both of them in comparison.
Author: Sarianna Metso
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9004350233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is concerned with tracing the different stages in the formation of the Qumran Community Rule in the light of the material from Cave 4 that has only recently become available. The first part of this ground-breaking work is devoted to determining the differences between the manuscripts of the Community Rule found in Caves 1, 4 and 5. The second part deals with the relationship between the various versions of the Community Rule. The third part aims at creating an overall picture of the literary development of this document and includes a discussion of the different elements within it as well as a comparison of the parallel passages, which reflect different stages in the redaction of the document.
Author: Catherine Murphy
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-12-24
Total Pages: 709
ISBN-13: 9047400658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. An introductory chapter establishes the state of the question. Three subsequent chapters focus on major sectarian texts: the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community, and 4QInstruction A. Other sectarian and non-sectarian texts that mention wealth are discussed in a fifth chapter, while archaeological evidence from the Qumran region and contemporary documentary texts are introduced in chapters seven and eight. Finally, ancient secondary testimony on Essene economic practices is discussed. The book breaks new ground in arguing for several biblical rationales for the practice of shared wealth. Its integration of archaeological and documentary evidence sheds surprising new light on the economic organization of the Qumran community.
Author: James C VanderKam
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1999-06-11
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9004676856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dead Sea Scrolls after Fifty Years is being published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the first scrolls at Qumran. The two-volume set contains a comprehensive set of cutting-edge articles on a wide range of topics that are archaeological, historical, literary, sociological, or theological in character. Since the discovery of the first scrolls in 1947 an overwhelming number of studies has been published. Now, half a century later, nearly all scrolls found have been published in critical editions, and scholars can begin to assess the true relevance of the scrolls for the study of the Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and Early Christianity. The contributors to these volumes form an international team of leading specialists in the field. They have written critical surveys of particular aspects of Dead Sea Scrolls research, focusing on significant developments, theories and conclusions, while also indicating directions for future study.
Author: Peter Flint
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 837
ISBN-13: 1532680694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Géza Vermès
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781451408782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough revision of a classic work on these crucial extant texts.
Author: William Horbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 1310
ISBN-13: 9780521243773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism focuses on the early Roman period.
Author: Albert I. Baumgartner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-13
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9004379002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we may imagine them to be biological as well; but in fact, they are social constructs, and a source of fundamental metaphors for the classification of experience. They thus help organize the world, at the same time as they express basic human identity. They vary from culture to culture and can productively be compared and contrasted from one setting to another. We intend these papers to be a test case of the benefit to be gained from attention to Religious Anthropology.
Author: Esther G. Chazon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9004190813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents new perspectives on the ancient texts discovered at Qumran. The essays offer fresh insights into particular texts and genres, by applying methods and constructs drawn from other disciplines to the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and by exploring new as well as long-standing issues raised by these works. The topics and approaches engaged include group identity, memory, ritual theory, sectarian sociology, philosophy of education, liturgical anthropology, Jewish law, history of religion, and mysticism. The articles in this volume were originally presented at the Tenth Annual International Orion Symposium sponsored in 2005 by the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Author: Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2010-03-08
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0802849768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the full publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls come major changes in our understanding of these fascinating texts and their significance for the study of the history of Judaism and Christianity. One of the most significant changes that one cannot study Qumran without Jerusalem nor Jerusalem without Qumran is explored in this important volume. / Although the Scrolls preserve the peculiar ideology of the Qumran sect, much of the material also represents the common beliefs and practices of the Judaism of the time. Here Lawrence Schiffman mines these incredible documents to reveal their significance for the reconstruction of the history of Judaism. His investigation brings to life a period of immense significance for the history of the Western world.
