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The Damascus document is one of the most important texts from the
Qumran caves. Part One of this Companion offers a lucid and
up-to-date introduction to all the manuscripts, including the eight
recently published from Qumran Cave 4. It also provides a review of
the key areas of scholarly research on this important Qumran text.
Part Two is devoted to the recently published text 4QMiscellaneous
Rules (4Q265; olim Serekh Damascus). This text has already become
the subject of intense interest among students of the Dead Sea
Scrolls because of its unique relationship to both the Community
Rule and the Damascus Document.
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 publication of eight
manuscripts of the Damascus Document from cave 4, which provide a
substantial amount of additional legal material, the legal part of
this document is set to be the focus of research in coming
years.
This volume provides a detailed analysis of the Laws of the
Damascus Document which fully incorporates the new cave 4 evidence.
The author offers a close reading of the text and identifies a
number of literary strata as well as a considerable amount of
redactional activity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological
discoveries of the last century. They have great historical,
religious, and linguistic significance, not least in relation to
the transmission of many of the books which came to be included in
the Hebrew Bible. This companion comprises over 70 articles,
exploring the entire body of the key texts and documents labelled
as Dead Sea Scrolls. Beginning with a section on the complex
methods used in discovering, archiving and analysing the Scrolls,
the focus moves to consideration of the Scrolls in their various
contexts: political, religious, cultural, economic and historical.
The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the Scrolls-
including exegesis and interpretation, poetry and hymns, and
liturgical texts - are then examined, with due attention given to
both past and present scholarship. The main body of the Companion
concludes with crucial issues and topics discussed by leading
scholars. Complemented by extensive appendices and indexes, this
Companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging
with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This volume comprises the lectures delivered at a conference on the
sapiential texts from Qumran hosted by A. Lange and H.
Lichtenberger in T bingen (1998) as well as a number of additional
contributions. This literature, although found in the Qumran
library, is mostly of non-Essene origin and can be dated to the
third and second century BCE with a single exception which might be
even older. The sapiential texts from Qumran add to the sparse
corpus of postexilic sapiential literature and shed new light on
the later Israelite and Jewish wisdom as well as on the sources
from which early Christian wisdom traditions originated. Therefore,
the volume attempts to understand the wisdom literature from Qumran
in the broader context of sapiential thought in the Ancient near
East, the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Judaism and the New Testament.
Beyond this, the volume further includes treatments of introductory
and linguistic questions as well as articles on specific sapiential
texts (Peeters 2002)
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