Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism
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.
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With 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.
Preface xAcknowledgments xivAbbreviations xviiIntroduction: The Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism 1The Scholarly Controversy1 The Many “Battles of the Scrolls” 152 Literary Genres and Languages of the Judean Scrolls 443 Halakhah and History: The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Recent Scholarship 63History, Politics, and The Formation of The Sect4 Community without Temple: The Qumran Community's Withdrawal from the Jerusalem Temple 815 Political Leadership and Organization in the Dead Sea Scrolls Community 986 The New Halakhic Letter (4QMMT) and the Origins of the Dead Sea Sect 1127 The Place of 4QMMT in the Corpus of Qumran Manuscripts 123Jewish Law at Qumran8 Legal Texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls 1439 Codification of Jewish Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls 17010 Pre-Maccabean Halakhah in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Tradition 18411 Contemporizing Halakhic Exegesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls 19712 Halakhic Elements in 4QInstruction 204Religious Outlook of The Qumran Sectarians13 The Early History of Jewish Liturgy and the Dead Sea Scrolls 21914 The Concept of Covenant in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature 23515 Holiness and Sanctity in the Dead Sea Scrolls 25616 Messianic Figures and Ideas in the Qumran Scrolls 27017 The Concept of Restoration in the Dead Sea Scrolls 28618 Jerusalem in the Dead Sea Scrolls 303Qumran Sectarians and Others19 The Pharisees and Their Legal Traditions according to the Dead Sea Scrolls 32120 Pharisees and Sadducees in Pesher Nahum 33721 Inter- or Intra-Jewish Conflict? The Judaism of the Dead Sea Scrolls Community and Its Opponents 35322 Non-Jews in the Dead Sea scrolls 365Language and Literature23 Pseudepigrapha in the Pseudepigrapha: Mythical Books in Second Temple Literature 38324 Second Temple Literature and the Cairo Genizah 39325 Inverting Reality: The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Popular Media 411Bibliography 424Index of Modern Authors 457Index of Subjects 464Index of Ancient Sources 471
