by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
Damascus Rule, Philip R. Davies, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. DAMASCUS RULE (CD). The “Damascus Rule (CD ) ”document was first discovered in the genizah (storeroom) of the Qara’ite synagogue in Old Cairo by S....
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
Community, Rule of the, Jerome Murphy O’Connor, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. COMMUNITY, RULE OF THE (1QS). 1QS was among the first scrolls discovered by the bedouin at the beginning of 1947 in what came to...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH), H-J.V.D. Minde, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. THANKSGIVING HYMNS (1QH). Among the Essene writings found by the Ta’amire bedouin in Qumran Cave 1 were two leather packages that were stuck...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
New Halakhic Texts from Qumran, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Hebrew Studies 34 (1993). The study of halakhah, legal matters, at Qumran will be advanced considerably by the present availability of the materials. The author discusses several issues using the previously...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
Miqsat Ma’ase HaTorah (4QMMT), Elisha Qimron, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. MIQṢAT MA’ASE HATORAH (4QMMT). A sectarian polemical document, six incomplete manuscripts of which (4Q394–99) were discovered in...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Religious Life at Qumran
Beware the Wiles of the Wanton Woman, Magen Broshi, Biblical Archaeology Review (9:4), Jul/Aug 1983. Nearly 35 years ago, Bedouin tribesmen searching for more scrolls near the original find on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea discovered the now-famous...
