EAN: 9783161570261

TEXTS AND STUDIES IN ANCIENT JUDAISM THE COMM...

In this volume  Charlotte Hempel offers the first comprehensive commentary on all twelve
ancient manuscripts of the Rules of the Community  works which contain the most important
descriptions of the organisation and values ascribed to the movement associated with the Dead
Sea Scrolls. The best preserved copy of this work (1QS) was one of the first scrolls to be
published and has long dominated the scholarly assessment of the Rules. The approach adopted in
this commentary is to capture the distinctive nature of each of the manuscripts based on a
synoptic translation that presents all the manuscripts at a glance. Textual notes and
Commentary deal with the picture derived from all preserved manuscripts. The publication of the
Cave 4 manuscripts in 1998 can be likened to a volcanic eruption that challenged prevalent
notions of the Community Rules that were founded on the quasi-archetypal status of the Cave 1
copy published in 1951. Since then the smoke has lifted and  as the pieces have begun to settle
we see green shoots emerging in the scholarly debate.. This commentary embraces the
post-volcanic landscape of the Community Rules  which is carefully sifted for clues to
establish a fresh reading of the material in conversation with the latest research on the
Scrolls. The evidence suggests that some of the practices described as the beating heart of the
movement's organization reflect the aspirations of a privileged sub-elite from the late Second
Temple Period.

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