Baumgarten, Joseph M.

Studies in Qumran law / Joseph M. Baumgarten - Leiden : Brill, 1977 - xii, 209 p. ; 25 cm. - Studies in Judaism in late antiquity ; 24 .

Qumran studies.--The unwritten law in the pre-rabbinic period.--Sacrifice and worship among the Jewish sectarians of the Dead Sea (Qumran) scrolls.--The Essenes and the temple.--The exclusion of netinim and proselytes in 4Q Florilegium.--The Essene avoidance of oil and the laws of purity.--The calendar of the Book of jubilees and the Bible.--The counting of the Sabbath in ancient sources.--The beginning of the day in the calendar of Jubilees.--4Q Halakaha 5, the law of ḥadash, and the pentecontad calendar.--The duodecimal courts of Qumran, the Apocalypse, and the Sanhedrin.--Does TLH in the temple scroll refer to crucifixion?--On the testimony of women in 1QSa.--Some notes on the Ben Sira scroll from Masada.

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Dead Sea scrolls.Jewish law History.Qumran community.

BM175.Q6 / .B34 1977