Studies in Qumran Law and Thought: Collected Essays of Joseph M. Baumgarten (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 138)

"The study of the laws of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the light of ancient rabbinic law, and vice versa, by a master of both corpora, sheds light on their interpretation, their history, and the spiritual stances they bespeak. The thirty-two studies united in this volume, a selection of Joseph M. Baumgarten's work in the three decades that followed the appearance of his Studies in Qumran Law (Brill, 1977), focus on legal concerns, both general and detailed, shared by the Qumran sectarians and the ancient rabbis--concerns that elicited responses that were sometimes similar, sometimes different, even to the extent of arousing polemics. An introductory essay by Lawrence H. Schiffman contextualizes the studies and points out the broader themes to which they relate"-- Provided by publisher Contents 6 Editors’ Foreword 12 Abbreviations 14 Publications of Joseph M. Baumgarten 17 Introduction The Contribution of Joseph M. Baumgarten to the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism 30 Part 1 General Essays on Qumran Law 58 Chapter 1 The Religious Law of the Qumran Community 60 Chapter 2Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in theHellenistic–Roman Perio 82 Chapter 2 Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in the Hellenistic–Roman Perio 82 Part 2 Rabbinic Literature and Qumran Law 94 Chapter 3 The Relevance of Rabbinic Sources to the Study of Qumran Law 96 Chapter 4 The Laws of the Damascus Document—Between Bible and Mishnah 103 Chapter 5 Tannaitic Halakhah and Qumran—A Re-Evaluation 113 Part 3 Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran 124 Chapter 6 4Q502: Marriage or Golden Age Ritual? 126 Chapter 7 The Qumran–Essene Restraints on Marriage 138 Chapter 8 The Pharisaic–Sadducean Controversies about Purity and the Qumran Texts 149 Chapter 9 Immunity to Impurity and the Menorah 166 Chapter 10 Sadducean Elements in Qumran Law 171 Chapter 11 The Heavenly Tribunal and the Personification of Ṣedeq in Jewish Apocalyptic 181 Chapter 12 The “Sons of Dawn” in CD 13:14–15 and the Ban on Commerce among the Essenes 204 Chapter 13 The Disqualifications of Priests in 4Q Fragments of the Damascus Document: A Specimen of the Recovery of Pre-Rabbinic Halakhah 209 Chapter 14 Halakhic Polemics in New Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 221 Part 4 Halakhic Topics 232 Chapter 15 On the Non-Literal Use of Maʿăśēr/Dekatē 234 Chapter 16 The First and Second Tithes in the Temple Scroll 242 Chapter 17 The Laws of ʿOrlah and First Fruits in the Light of Jubilees, the Qumran Writings, and Targum Ps.-Jonathan 253 Chapter 18 The Use of מי נדה for General Purification 263 Chapter 19 Yom Kippur in the Qumran Scrolls and Second Temple Sources 270 Chapter 20 Exclusions from the Temple: Proselytes and Agrippa I 279 Chapter 21 Hanging and Treason in Qumran and Roman Law 290 Chapter 22 The Avoidance of the Death Penalty in Qumran Law 306 Chapter 23 Qumran and the Halakhah in the Aramaic Targumim 313 Chapter 24 Some “Qumranic” Observations on the Aramaic Levi Document 326 Part 5 Theology and Apocalypticism 334 Chapter 25 Theological Elements in the Formulation of Qumran Law 336 Chapter 26 Some Theological Aspects of Second Temple Shabbat Practice 346 Chapter 27 The Purification Liturgies 352 Chapter 28 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran 359 Chapter 29 On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184 373 Chapter 30 The Book of Elkesai and Merkabah Mysticism 384 Chapter 31 The Qumran Sabbath Shirot and Rabbinic Merkabah Traditions 396 Chapter 32 Messianic Forgiveness of Sin in CD 14:19 (4Q266 10 i 12–13) 412 Index of Modern Authors 420 Index of Ancient Sources 424