Overt Acknowledgement of Practical Considerations in Legal Texts from Qumran
Scholars typically suppose that legal texts from Qumran do not distinguish between principle and practice. The law does not legitimate lenient accommodations to reality, nor does it explicitly implement stringencies merely as precautions. While this view is no doubt largely correct, there are notabl...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2014, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-81 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Law
/ Weisung des Lehrers an Jonatan (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Tempelrolle (Qumran Scrolls)
/ Wedding ceremony
/ Sabbath
/ Purity
/ Jerusalem
/ Blindness
/ Menstruation
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Law
stringency
4QMMT
Temple Scroll
marriage
Sabbath
purity
Jerusalem
blind
menstruant
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| Summary: | Scholars typically suppose that legal texts from Qumran do not distinguish between principle and practice. The law does not legitimate lenient accommodations to reality, nor does it explicitly implement stringencies merely as precautions. While this view is no doubt largely correct, there are notable exceptions. This article collects and analyzes these exceptions, and weighs their significance. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341288 |