The laws of the Damascus document : sources, tradition, and redaction /

The laws of the Damascus document : sources, tradition, and redaction /

The Damascus Document is one of the key texts to have been discovered in both spectacular Jewish manuscript discoveries of the 20 th century: the Cairo Genizah and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The legal part of this document has until recently received little scholarly attention. With the recent publicatio...

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Main Author: Hempel, Charlotte.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.

Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 29.
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Online, ISBN: 9789004378346.

Subjects:

Damascus document.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Qumran community.
Jewish law.

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Call Number: BM175.Z3 H46 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • IDENTIFYING SOURCES AND REDACTIONAL ACTIVITY IN THE LAWS OF THE DAMASCUS DOCUMENT
  • HALAKHAH
  • COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART ONE: ADMISSION INTO THE COVENANT COMMUNITY
  • COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART TWO: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
  • COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART THREE: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CAMPS
  • COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PART FOUR: THE PENAL CODE
  • MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF HALAKHAH
  • CATALOGUE OF TRANSGRESSIONS
  • TRANSITIONAL PASSAGE INTRODUCING THE LAWS
  • EXPULSION CEREMONY AND THE END OF THE DOCUMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • MODERN AUTHORS
  • STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.