Studies in Qumran Law and Thought / Joseph M. Baumgarten ; edited by Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz ; with an introductory essay by Lawrence H. Schiffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baumgarten, Joseph M., author.

Contributor:

Clements, Ruth, editor.

Schwartz, Daniel R., editor.

Schiffman, Lawrence H., writer of foreword.

Series:

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; Volume 138.

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Series ; Volume 138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead Sea scrolls.

Jewish law.

Qumran community.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

The study of the laws of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of ancient rabbinic law, and vice versa, by a master of both corpora, sheds light on their interpretation, their history, and the spiritual stances they bespeak. The thirty-two studies united in this volume, a selection of Joseph M. Baumgarten's work in the three decades that followed the appearance of his Studies in Qumran Law (Brill, 1977), focus on legal concerns, both general and detailed, shared by the Qumran sectarians and the ancient rabbis-concerns that elicited responses that were sometimes similar, sometimes different, even to the extent of arousing polemics. An introductory essay by Lawrence H. Schiffman contextualizes the studies and points out the broader themes to which they relate.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Editors' Foreword

Abbreviations

Publications of Joseph M. Baumgarten

Introduction The Contribution of Joseph M. Baumgarten to the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism

Part 1 General Essays on Qumran Law

Chapter 1 The Religious Law of the Qumran Community

Chapter 2Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in theHellenistic-Roman Perio

Chapter 2 Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in the Hellenistic-Roman Perio

Part 2 Rabbinic Literature and Qumran Law

Chapter 3 The Relevance of Rabbinic Sources to the Study of Qumran Law

Chapter 4 The Laws of the Damascus Document-Between Bible and Mishnah

Chapter 5 Tannaitic Halakhah and Qumran-A Re-Evaluation

Part 3 Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran

Chapter 6 4Q502: Marriage or Golden Age Ritual?

Chapter 7 The Qumran-Essene Restraints on Marriage

Chapter 8 The Pharisaic-Sadducean Controversies about Purity and the Qumran Texts

Chapter 9 Immunity to Impurity and the Menorah

Chapter 10 Sadducean Elements in Qumran Law

Chapter 11 The Heavenly Tribunal and the Personification of Ṣedeq in Jewish Apocalyptic

Chapter 12 The "Sons of Dawn" in CD 13:14-15 and the Ban on Commerce among the Essenes

Chapter 13 The Disqualifications of Priests in 4Q Fragments of the Damascus Document: A Specimen of the Recovery of Pre-Rabbinic Halakhah

Chapter 14 Halakhic Polemics in New Fragments from Qumran Cave 4

Part 4 Halakhic Topics

Chapter 15 On the Non-Literal Use of Maʿăśēr/Dekatē

Chapter 16 The First and Second Tithes in the Temple Scroll

Chapter 17 The Laws of ʿOrlah and First Fruits in the Light of Jubilees, the Qumran Writings, and Targum Ps.-Jonathan

Chapter 18 The Use of מי נדה for General Purification

Chapter 19 Yom Kippur in the Qumran Scrolls and Second Temple Sources.

Chapter 20 Exclusions from the Temple: Proselytes and Agrippa I

Chapter 21 Hanging and Treason in Qumran and Roman Law

Chapter 22 The Avoidance of the Death Penalty in Qumran Law

Chapter 23 Qumran and the Halakhah in the Aramaic Targumim

Chapter 24 Some "Qumranic" Observations on the Aramaic Levi Document

Part 5 Theology and Apocalypticism

Chapter 25 Theological Elements in the Formulation of Qumran Law

Chapter 26 Some Theological Aspects of Second Temple Shabbat Practice

Chapter 27 The Purification Liturgies

Chapter 28 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran

Chapter 29 On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184

Chapter 30 The Book of Elkesai and Merkabah Mysticism

Chapter 31 The Qumran Sabbath Shirot and Rabbinic Merkabah Traditions

Chapter 32 Messianic Forgiveness of Sin in CD 14:19 (4Q266 10 i 12-13)

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: M Baumgarten, Joseph Studies in Qumran Law and Thought

ISBN:

9789004505087

9004505083

OCLC:

1306067488

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004505087 DOI