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The Community Rules from Qumran - A Commentary (Hardcover)
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The Community Rules from Qumran - A Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 183
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In this volume, Charlotte Hempel offers the first comprehensive
commentary on all twelve ancient manuscripts of the Rules of the
Community, works which contain the most important descriptions of
the organisation and values ascribed to the movement associated
with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The best preserved copy of this work
(1QS) was one of the first scrolls to be published and has long
dominated the scholarly assessment of the Rules. The approach
adopted in this commentary is to capture the distinctive nature of
each of the manuscripts based on a synoptic translation that
presents all the manuscripts at a glance. Textual notes and
Commentary deal with the picture derived from all preserved
manuscripts. The publication of the Cave 4 manuscripts in 1998 can
be likened to a volcanic eruption that challenged prevalent notions
of the Community Rules that were founded on the quasi-archetypal
status of the Cave 1 copy published in 1951. Since then the smoke
has lifted and, as the pieces have begun to settle, we see green
shoots emerging in the scholarly debate.. This commentary embraces
the post-volcanic landscape of the Community Rules, which is
carefully sifted for clues to establish a fresh reading of the
material in conversation with the latest research on the Scrolls.
The evidence suggests that some of the practices described as the
beating heart of the movement's organization reflect the
aspirations of a privileged sub-elite from the late Second Temple
Period.
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