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The Damascus Document (Hardcover)
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The Damascus Document (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Steve D. Fraade offers a new translation, with notes, and detailed
commentary to the Dead Sea Scroll most commonly called the Damascus
Document, based on both ancient manuscripts from caves along the
western shore of the Dead Sea, and medieval manuscripts from the
Cairo Geniza. The text is one of the longest and most important of
the Dead Sea Scrolls. Its importance derives from several aspects
of its contents: its extensive collections of laws, both for the
sectarian community that authored it and for the rest of Israel;
some of the oldest examples of scriptural interpretation, both
legal and narrative, both implicit and explicit, with important
implications for our understanding of the evolving status of the
Hebrew canon; some of the clearest expressions, often in hortatory
form, of the community's self-understanding as an elect remnant of
Israel that understands itself in dualistic opposition to the rest
of Israel, its practices, and its leaders; important expressions of
the community's self-understanding as a priestly alternative to the
sacrificial worship in the Jerusalem Temple; expressions of an
apocalyptic, eschatological understanding of living as the true
Israel in the "end of days;" important expressions of attitudes
toward woman, sexual activity, and marriage; importance for our
understanding of ancient modes of teaching and of ritual practice;
importance for the study of the history of the Hebrew language and
its scribal practices. The volume contains a substantial
introduction, dealing with these aspects of the Damascus Document
and locating its place within the Dead Sea Scrolls more broadly as
well as the historical context of ancient Judaism that gave rise to
this text.
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