From Qumran to the Yaḥad

A New Paradigm of Textual Development for the Community Rule
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17007-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of The Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yahad or S), scholars have been perplexed about its complex textual history. This important charter material for the Dead Sea Scrolls’ authors appears in alternate versions—ones with contradictory legal prescriptions and opposing self-references—but exhibits no clear order of chronological development. Benefitting from the entire Qumran library now available to us, this book offers a new, broader model for reading S that better accounts for the long and diverse history behind the text. The resulting paradigm challenges the Qumrancentric lens through which many read the “sectarian texts” and offers a fresh way of thinking about sectarian community formation among the authors of the Scrolls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schofield, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Schofield, Ph.D. (2006) in Hebrew Bible and early Judaism, University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor of Religious and Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. She has published primarily on the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Judaism, and biblical themes of wilderness and exile.