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From Qumran to the Yaḥad: A New Paradigm of Textual Development for the Community Rule

by Alison Schofield

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.8 x 24.4 x 2.6 cm

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Since the discovery of the Cave 4 versions of The Community Rule (Serekh ha-Yaḥad 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.

  • Title

    From Qumran to the Yaḥad: A New Paradigm of Textual Development for the Community Rule

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    November 2008

  • Weight

    818g

  • Dimensions

    16.8 x 24.4 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004170070

  • ISBN-10

    9004170073

  • Eden Code

    5610269

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