Ritual Purity And The Dead Sea Scrolls

Author : Ian Werrett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047423011
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Ian Werrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an independent approach to the relevant documents from Qumran, this study discusses the primary and secondary literature on the five major categories of impurity in the scrolls (i.e., diseases, clean/unclean animals, corpses, bodily discharges, and sexual misdeeds). This examination is supported by a comparison between the scrolls’ purity legislations and their biblical counterparts. The book culminates with a comparison between the purity rulings in the scrolls and a diachronic reading of the explicit agreements and disagreements found therein. The result is a far more comprehensive and nuanced interpretation than has been previously offered.

Author : Ian C. Werrett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004156232
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Purity and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Ian C. Werrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran, this book offers a detailed examination of the purity material from Qumran through a diachronic lens.

Author : Hannah Harrington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567376907
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purity Texts written by Hannah Harrington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. After a general introduction and an examination of individual texts for the contribution of each to the subject of purity, the book devotes a chapter to each of the impurities discussed in the Scrolls: death, leprosy, bodily discharges and outsiders. In each of these chapters, emphasis is placed on the large amount of congruence of the Qumran texts with each other on the subject of purity and the similarities and differences between the Qumran texts and other sources of ancient Judaism. The contributors to the Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series take account of all relevant and recently published texts and provide extensive bibliographies. The books in the series are authoritatively written in accessible language and are ideal for students and non-specialist scholars. Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, volume 5

Author : Bruce McComiskey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090529
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Bruce McComiskey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Israelite documents, many of which were written by a Jewish sectarian community at Qumran living in self-exile from the priesthood of the Second Temple. This first book-length study of the rhetoric of these texts illustrates how the Essenes employed different rhetorics over time as they struggled to understand God’s word and their mission to their people, who seemed to have turned away from God and his purposes. Applying methods of rhetorical analysis to six substantive texts—Miqṣat Maʿaśeh ha-Torah, Rule of the Community, Damascus Document, Purification Rules, Temple Scroll, and Habakkuk Pesher—Bruce McComiskey traces the Essenes’ use of rhetorical strategies based on identification, dissociation, entitlement, and interpretation. Through his analysis, McComiskey uncovers a unique, fascinating story of an ancient religious community that had sought to reintegrate into Temple life but, dejected, instead established itself as the new covenant people of God for this world, only to turn ultimately to a trust in a metaphysical afterlife. Presenting forms of ancient Jewish rhetoric largely uninfluenced by classical rhetoric, this book broadens our understanding of human and religious rhetorical practice, even as it provides new insight into the events that led to the emergence of the Talmudic period. Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls will be useful to scholars working in the fields of religious rhetoric, Jewish studies, and early Christianity.

Author : Steven A. Fisdel
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls written by Steven A. Fisdel and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.

Author : Jonathan David Lawrence
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589831993
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washing in Water written by Jonathan David Lawrence and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Flint
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532680694
Total Pages : 837 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls After Fifty Years, Volume 2 written by Peter Flint and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul R. Cheesman
Publisher : Bookcraft, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scriptures for the Modern World written by Paul R. Cheesman and published by Bookcraft, Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald T. Ariel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls written by Donald T. Ariel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Sea Scrolls are regarded as perhaps the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century - their importance to the history and development of Judaism and Christianity is unquestionable. This lavishly produced book shows the scrolls in their context, providing translations, pictures, and information on associated finds.

Author : Lawrence H. Schiffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Lawrence H. Schiffman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: