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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.

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'It presents a viable perspective on the development of the rule texts and of the communities behind them, and is therefore definitely worthy of further study.' H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: 27/11/2008
      ISBN13: 9789004170070, 978-9004170070
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      Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      'It presents a viable perspective on the development of the rule texts and of the communities behind them, and is therefore definitely worthy of further study.' H. Debel, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

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