Overview Overview- Biblical Literature Primary sources The Letter of Aristeas- How the Jewish Law was Translated from Hebrew to Greek Mishnah Yadayim 3-5- The Debate Over the Biblical Canon Tosefta Yadayim 2-14- The Biblical Canon and Divine Inspiration Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 14b-15a- The Order of Scripture Secondary sources Jeremiah, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the […]
Not long after archaeologists confirmed the location of the cave where Bedouin shepherds had found the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an archaeological expedition was organized to excavate the nearby site known as Khirbet Qumran, the ruins of Qumran. Directed by a Dominican father, Roland de Vaux, the excavation and survey was sponsored by […]
Primary sources Sifre Deuteronomy 351- The Antiquity of the Concept of Oral Law Mishnah Rosh ha-Shanah 1-1-9- The Fixing of the Calendar Tosefta Rosh ha-Shanah 1-1-14- More on the Fixing of the Calendar The Temple Scroll LVI-LVII- The Law of the King (Martinez) Secondary sources Calendar Controversies, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, […]
Overview Overview- Religious Life at Qumran Primary sources Mishnah Miqva’ot 2-2-4, 8-1- The Fitness of a Ritual Pool Mishnah Niddah 2-4, 6- Some Laws of Purity Mishnah Niddah 4-2- The Pharisaic Ruling on Sadducee Women Secondary sources Courts and Testimony, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. Liturgy of […]
Overview Overview- Publication and Preservation Secondary sources Christianization of the Scrolls, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. Scholars, Scrolls and Scandals, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. Is the Vatican Suppressing the Dead Sea Scrolls? Hershel Shanks, Biblical Archaeology Review, Nov-Dec […]
Carbon-14 (C-14) tests on samples of the Dead Sea Scrolls have substantially confirmed the previous date of the scrolls based on paleography (the shape of the letters), according to two recent reports.1 This general conclusion was announced in a press release some months ago, but when BAR asked Magen Broshi, curator of the Shrine of […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls The Temple Scroll is the longest and, in my view, clearly the most important of the preserved Dead Sea Scrolls. It was composed, I believe, as an addition or, still better, a supplement to the Pentateuch, as a sixth book of the Torah, on the same level of authority as Genesis, […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls TEMPLE SCROLL. A scroll emanating from Qumran Cave 11 (hence its designation 11QTemple; Heb Megillat Hammiqdaš) which sets forth the author/redactor’s plan for a perfect society, cult, and government of the Jewish people in the land of Israel. A. Discovery The Temple Scroll was first brought to the attention of the […]
Overview Overview- Pesher Primary sources Habakkuk Pesher I-IX- The Coming of the Final Age (Martinez) Secondary sources The Prophets in the Hands of Men, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. Pesher Habakkuk, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. Pesher Isaiah, Lawrence […]
Letter from archaeologist Yigael Yadin, ex-Chief of Staff of the IDF informing Teddy Kollek in the Prime Minister’s Office that he had completed the purchase of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls in New York, end of 1954. Israel Museum