by hadassah | Sep 1, 2016 | Decline of Sectarianism, Identification of the Sect
The Scrolls and Christianity There is still a popular conception that the Dead Sea Scrolls can solve the problem of early Christianity, but that prevents us from learning about the rise of Christianity through these Jewish texts. Prof. Lawrence H....
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Decline of Sectarianism
The Decline of Sectarianism The sectarianism of the Second Temple period involved itself primarily with thoughtful debate on the correct interpretation of the Torah and the shape of Jewish life and law. It also led the Jewish people into an unsuccessful revolt...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Decline of Sectarianism
The Bar Kokhba Documents, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. The emergence of the new consensus becomes even clearer when we look at the documents found in the Bar Kokhba caves located along...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Decline of Sectarianism
Copper Scroll (3Q15), Bargil (Virgil) Pixner, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. In March 1952 a team of archaeologists discovered in Qumran Cave 3 a scroll engraved on two copper sheets which had originally formed one...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Decline of Sectarianism
The Copper Scroll, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. The priests and sectarians of Qumran never cut off entirely their relations with the priests of Jerusalem, despite their strenuous...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Decline of Sectarianism
The Rise of Christianity, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. Ironically, what also encouraged the shift from sectarianism to Jewish consensus in the first century C.E. was the rise of...
