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How do the halakhic texts from Qumran as well as those Biblical Dead Sea
Scrolls, which attest to legal texts of the Hebrew Bible, lead to a new
interpretation and understanding of the Pentateuchal law collections and
other legal texts in the Hebrew Bible and how do they help to illuminate
the reception history of the Torah? These are the central questions of
this book. The book consists of three parts: Part I: The Legal Texts from
Qumran and the Hebrew Bible, Part II: The Legal Texts from Qumran and
Second Temple Judaism and Part III: The Legal Texts from Qumran and
Rabbinic Judaism. The volume contains an "Introduction" by Armin
Lange and Kristin De Troyer and articles by Sidnie White
Crawford ("The Qumran Pentateuch Scrolls: Their Literary Growth and
Textual History"), Innocent Himbaza ("The Rite of the Blood on
the Altar and the Hierarchy of Sacrifices: Qumran Texts, Septuagint and
Mishnah as Witnesses to a Law in Evolution"), Michaela Bauks
("Jephtas Gelübde und die Unabwendbarkeit seiner Einlösung"), Loren
T. Stuckenbruck ("The Pentateuch and Biblical Interpretation in the
Enoch Literature from the Second Century BCE"), Eckhard Otto ("Temple
Scroll and Pentateuch: A Priestly Debate about the Interpretation of
the Torah"), Simone M. Paganini ("Die deuteronomistische
Fassung des Königsgesetzes und ihre Interpretation innerhalb der
Tempelrolle: Rechtshermeneutische Beobachtungen"), Bernhard Dolna
("The Hidden and the Revealed Torah in Philo and Qumran"), Lawrence
H. Schiffman ("Light from the Qumran Scrolls on Rabbinic Literature
"), Günter Stemberger ("Mishnah and Dead Sea Scrolls - a
Reflection on Continuity and Change") and Hannah K. Harrington
("Examining Rabbinic Halakhah through the Lens of Qumran").
