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Civic ideology, organization, and law in the Rule scrolls : a comparative study of the Covenanters' sect and contemporary voluntary associations in political context / by Yonder Moynihan Gillihan.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BL60 .G5325 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillihan, Yonder Moynihan.
- Series:
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 97.
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; v. 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and civil society--Palestine--History.
- Religion and civil society.
- Qumran community--History.
- Qumran community.
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
- Jews.
- Dead Sea scrolls.
- Religion and politics--Palestine--History.
- Religion and politics.
- Civil society--Palestine--History.
- Civil society.
- History.
- Palestine--Politics and government.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 586 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Summary:
- Using insights from modern sociology, this book argues that the organization, law, and literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls sect expressed an "alternative civic ideology" by which members claimed citizenship in a superior commonwealth that would soon replace the existing Judean state.
- Notes:
- Revised version of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9789004168121
- 9004168125
- OCLC:
- 731009512
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