Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Dead Sea Discoveries
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,1 (2019) 75-100
Keywords:
Dead Sea scrolls Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Temple scroll Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Damascus document Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Vows in post-biblical literature
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Oaths in post-biblical literature
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1163/15685179-12341466
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