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Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XVIII. Qumran Cave 4: XIII - The Damascus Document (4Q266-273) (Hardcover)
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Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XVIII. Qumran Cave 4: XIII - The Damascus Document (4Q266-273) (Hardcover)
Series: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, XVIII
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Discovery Miles: 116 670
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In this long awaited edition Baumgarten presents all the known
Qumran Cave 4 manuscripts of the Damascus Document on the basis of
J. T. Milik's original transcriptions. These eight manuscripts
antedate the two medieval Cairo Geniza texts (CD) by more than a
millennium and are indispensable for all future literary and
historical studies on one of the major foundational works of the
Qumran community. For the first time we have the paraenetic
beginning and ending of the work, as well as major additions to the
legal corpus found in one of the medieval texts. The laws of this
corpus and the historical identification of the Jews who formulated
them were earlier in this century the subject of much controversy,
but have since been largely ignored in Qumran scholarship. Some
even suggested that they were not an integral part of the Damascus
Document. It is now apparent from the expanded corpus that the
interpretation of biblical law was a central concern of the Qumran
community. Among the new subjects treated are such matters as the
ethical arrangement of marriages, the role of women in the sect,
and the legal status of fetal life. These laws are found side by
side with allusions to the cosmic conflict of light and darkness
and a view of history in which periods of wrath are ordained to
precede the end of days.
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