The Laws of the Damascus Document

Sources, Traditions and Redaction

Charlotte Hempel (Autor)

Buch | Ledereinband/Edeleinband

218 Seiten

1998
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-11150-9 (ISBN)

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The Damascus Document is a key text among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The last eight extant copies of this document have recently been published. This volume offers a first analysis of its legal part since the publication of all the evidence.

The Damascus Document is one of the key texts to have been discovered in both spectacular Jewish manuscript discoveries of the 20 th century: the Cairo Genizah and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The legal part of this document has until recently received little scholarly attention. With the recent publication of eight manuscripts of the Damascus Document from cave 4, which provide a substantial amount of additional legal material, the legal part of this document is set to be the focus of research in coming years.
This volume provides a detailed analysis of the Laws of the Damascus Document which fully incorporates the new cave 4 evidence. The author offers a close reading of the text and identifies a number of literary strata as well as a considerable amount of redactional activity.

Charlotte Hempel, Ph.D. (1995) University of London, is Sutasoma Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge. Recent publications include The Earthly Essene Nucleus of IQSa, in Dead Sea Discoveries (1996) and The Penal Code Reconsidered in Legal Texts and Legal Issues, (Brill, 1997).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.6.1998
Reihe/Serie	Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah ; 29
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	565 g
Einbandart	Leinen
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-11150-6 / 9004111506
ISBN-13	978-90-04-11150-9 / 9789004111509
Zustand	Neuware