Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

The most characteristic feature of both the entire corpus and the col- lections of the individual caves is that virtually all th ...

The traditional paleographic dating of the manuscripts ranges from the mid-third centuryb.c.e.to the end of the first centuryc.e ...

term “biblical.” This realization has provoked discussions of whether texts like theReworked Pentateuchmanuscripts are biblical, ...

pentateuchal books, three with Aramaic translations(targumim),and thirty-three phylacteries andmezuzot.In addition, many of the ...

the textual variety before the post-70-c.e.move toward textual standard- ization that influenced the other Judean Desert “biblic ...

which are attested by twenty copies or more) with the small number of preserved copies (three or less) of Joshua, Judges, Kings, ...

lap, as in the case of rewritings attributed to Moses or Ezekiel, these are two distinct types, and the general but vague term “ ...

Proverbs 1–9 in 4QBeatitudes and 4QWiles of the Wicked Woman was meant as authoritative interpretation of scripture, or rather a ...

The contents of these Aramaic texts suggest that some might have a pre- Maccabean origin in priestly-Levitical circles who had k ...

ture, a commentary on the quoted verse(s), a quotation of the next verses, its interpretation, and so on. Characteristic is the ...

daism had become thoroughly scripturalized, even though the borders be- tween scripture and interpretation may have been somewha ...

MMT is as an epistolary treatise of which the central part (called B by the editors) consists of a survey of legal issues. They ...

enumerations of the number of days per month, registers of the holy festi- vals on their respective dates in a 364-day year, reg ...

paleographic dating ofWords of the Luminariesa(4Q504) around 150 b.c.e., and the lack of explicit sectarian terminology, it has ...

interpret and allude to specific passages; they sometimes use scriptural patterns but also emulate or rework specific biblical s ...

Sapiential Work(4Q185) andBeatitudes.The connection of practical and religious instruction with eschatology may have a parenetic ...

said at different stages of the war. Other works, like the sapiential texts and the “Treatise of the Two Spirits” (1QS 3-4), con ...

Spirits,” and end with a thanksgiving hymn, whereas the version preserved in 4Q259 ends with a calendrical text(}Otot). The grou ...

The Nature and Significance of the Corpus Apart from specific organizational expressions, the rule scrolls attest to communal ri ...

porary place of concealment, or perhaps even a genizah — is unclear. And we do not know the precise historical events that led t ...