TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hempel,Charlotte
TI  - The community rules from Qumran: a commentary 
T2  - Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism
SN  - 9783161570278
AV  - BM488.M3 H46 2020eb
U1  - 290 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Tübingen
PB  - Mohr Siebeck
KW  - Manual of discipline
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - fast
KW  - Manual of Discipline
KW  - nli
KW  - Qumran community
KW  - Communauté de Qumrān
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-322) and indexes; General introduction -- Introduction: outline of communal aspirations -- Admission into and reaffirmation of the covenant -- The teaching on the two spirits -- Requirements and leadership for a new community in two founding narratives -- Rules concerning meetings -- The penal code -- The council of the community -- Deliberate failure to obey a commandment -- Rules of conduct and discipline for the people of perfect holiness -- The community and the cultic realm -- The authority of the sons of Aaron -- The conduct of the people of holiness and the people of deceit -- The statutes for the maskil -- Hymn
N2  - 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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