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

Contents

• • Preliminary Material (i-xviii)   (468K)
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    • Contents
    • List Of Tables
    • List Of Figures
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations And Sigla
  • Introduction (1-20)   (476K)
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    • The case of Serekh Ha-Yaḥad
    • A New Model Of Reading The Serekh Versions
    • Methodological Approach
    • Chapter Synopsis
  • The Yaḥad and the Serekh: Where are we now? (21-68)   (674K)
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    • 1.1 Previous study of the Yaḥad “sect”
    • 1.2 Rethinking the Yaḥad
    • 1.3 A New Model Of Reading S
    • 1.4 Implications For The Qumran Collection
    • 1.5 Conclusions
  • Textual analysis of S (69-130)   (759K)
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    • 2.1 The Case Of S: Lingering Problems
    • 2.2 Paleography And Dating: Method And Limitations
    • 2.3 Text-Critical Assesment
    • 2.4 Legal Incompatibilities In The Versions
    • 2.5 Orthography And Scribal Conventions
    • 2.6 General Conclusions
  • Serekh Ha-Yaḥad: Comparative evidence (131-190)   (922K)
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    • 3.1 Terminology and rhetoric of the Yaḥad
    • 3.2 Comparative Evidence From The “Rule” Texts
    • 3.3 Comparison Of The Penal Codes
    • 3.4 Conclusions: Texts And Communities
  • External evidence: The classical sources (191-218)   (644K)
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    • 4.1 Ancient Testimony Of The Essenes
    • 4.2 Philo Of Alexandria
    • 4.3 Josephus
    • 4.4 Pliny The Elder
    • 4.5 Later Witnesses
    • 4.6 Other Written Sources
    • 4.7 Summary Of The Evidence
  • Archaeology of Qumran: The contemporary debate (219-272)   (2M)
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    • 5.1 Ruins And Religion: The Case Of Qumran
    • 5.2 Satellite settlements of the Yaḥad?
    • 5.3 Conclusions: Archaeology and the Yaḥad
  • Conclusions (273-282)   (362K)
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    • Text-Critical Conclusions
    • Comparative Evidence: The Context Of S
    • Returning To S: Tentative Reflections
  • Comparison of the penal codes (283-284)   (341K)
  • Bibliography (285-310)   (500K)
  • Index of modern authors (311-314)   (345K)
  • Index of ancient sources (315-326)   (594K)
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    • The Dead Sea Scrolls
    • Bible, Apocrypha, And Pseudepigrapha
    • Classical And Rabbinic Sources