Legislating the Lips: Revisiting Vows and Oaths in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document

The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11-54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6-12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22-24 and Num 30:3-17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent...

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Main Author: Cizek, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-99
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tempelrolle (Qumran Scrolls) 53 / Tempelrolle (Qumran Scrolls) 54 / Damaskusschrift (Qumran Scrolls) 16 / Bible. Deuteronomium 23,22-24 / Bible. Numeri 30,3-17 / Vow / Oath
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Numbers
B Deuteronomy
B Oaths
B Damascus Document
B Temple Scroll
B annulments
B Vows
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Summary:The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11-54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6-12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22-24 and Num 30:3-17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent and links this conclusion with his position that the Temple Scroll is Sadducean and the Damascus Document comes from a later Sadducean splinter group. However, my analysis leads to a different conclusion. I demonstrate that the authors of the Temple Scroll and Damascus Document evidence distinct aims in their appropriations of shared base texts, but not necessarily incongruence nor intentional divergence.
ISSN:1568-5179
Contains:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341466