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"The Qumran Rule texts in context" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction
• 2- The nature of the communities --
• 3- Beginnings --
• 4- The teacher : from John Wayne to the wizard of Oz --
• 5- Looking for beginnings in unexpected places --
• 6- The community rule traditions --
• 7- Close encounters : the community rule and the Damascus document --
• 8- Rules in the context of wisdom and law --
• 9- Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond --
• 10- The scrolls and the emerging scriptures --
• 11- Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered --
• 12- Concluding reflections --
• 13- The nature of the communities --
• 14- Community structures and organization -- -- Introduction
• 15- Admission process --
• 16- Organization --
• 17- Property --
• 18- Meetings --
• 19- Leadership and authority structures --
• 20- Communal meals --
• 21- Family life and celibacy --
• 22- Disciplinary and judicial procedures --
• 23- Conclusion --
• 24- The Damascus document and 1 QSa -- -- Introduction
• 25- 1 QSa 1:6-2:11 a and its present context --
• 26- I QSa 1:6-2:11 a and the laws of the Damascus document --
• 27- 'All-israel' terminology --
• 28- Family life --
• 29- ... terminology --
• 30- The book of Hagi --
• 31- Exclusion from the congregation --
• 32- Conclusion --
• 33- Beginnings --
• 34- The Damascus document and community origins -- -- Introduction
• 35- Discussion of the texts --
• 36- CD 1:3-11 a : a first account of community origins in the Damascus document --
• 37- CD 2:8b-13 : a second account of community origins in the Damascus document --
• 38- CD 3:12b-4:12a : a third account of community origins in the Damascus document --
• 39- CD 5:20-6:1 la : a fourth account of community origins in the Damascus document --
• 40- Analysis of all four accounts of community origins in the Damascus document --
• 41- Emerging communities in the Serekh -- -- Introduction
• 42- The evidence of the S manuscripts --
• 43- Emerging communal life in 1QS 6 --
• 44- An emerging community ideology in 1QS 8 --
• 45- Expiation restricted to the community (1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) and 4Q258 (4QSd)) --
• 46- The evidence of 4Q265 --
• 47- The evidence of the Damascus document --
• 48- Conclusions and outlook --
• 49- Small beginnings or geographical diversity -- -- Introduction
• 50- Texts, communities, and the site of Qumran --
• 51- Yahạd(s) before and outside of Qumran --
• 52- 1QS 6:1c-8a : the under-studied enters the limelight --
• 53- CD 13:2b-3a : a council-free version of 1QS 6:3 --
• 54- Conclusion --
• 55- The community rule traditions --
• 56- Shifting paradigms concerning the literary development of the Serekh --
• 57- Introduction and history of research --
• 58- Continuity alongside difference between 1QS and 4QS --
• 59- Diversity within 4Q258 (4QSd) --
• 60- The many in 1QS --
• 61- The council of the community in S --
• 62- Conclusion --
• 63- Close encounters : The community rule and the Damascus document --
• 64- CD 19-20 and the community rule -- -- Introduction
• 65- CD 20:1-8 and the community rule --
• 66- The texts (CD 20:lb-8a and 1QS 8:16b-9:2; 9:8-11a//4Q258 (4QSd) 6 8b.11-12; 7 1-3.7-9) --
• 67- Analysis --
• 68- Conclusion --
• 69- Rewritten rule texts -- -- Introduction
• 70- Points of contact between S and D --
• 71- The penal code --
• 72- Gatherings of ten --
• 73- Admission into the community by swearing an oath --
• 74- Maskil headings --
• 75- The self designation "the people of perfect holiness" --
• 76- Liturgical framework --
• 77- Analysis and conclusions --
• 78- Rules in the context of wisdom and law --
• 79- The rule books and the Qumran wisdom texts -- -- Introduction
• 80- The questions --
• 81- Three Qumran sapiential works --
• 82- The book of mysteries --
• 83- Instruction --
• 84- 4Qways of righteousness --
• 85- Wisdom elements in the rule books --
• 86- Raz Nihyeh --
• 87- The book of Hagi --
• 88- The Maskil --
• 89- Maskil in instruction --
• 90- Maskil in 4Qways of righteousness --
• 91- Maskil in the Damascus document --
• 92- Maskil in the community rule --
• 93- Maskil in 4Q298 (address of the Maskil to the sons of Dawn) --
• 94- Conclusion --
• 95- The Damascus document and MMT -- -- Introduction
• 96- 4QMMT and communal legislation in the Damascus document (d) --
• 97- 4QMMT and halakhah in D --
• 98- General observations --
• 99- Specific texts --
• 100- The 4QD material on the disqualification of priests --
• 101- The 4QD material on skin disease, flux and childbirth --
• 102- 4QD Halakhah dealing with agricultural matters --
• 103- Texts expressing concern about defilement through contact with gentiles --
• 104- The catalogue of transgressions in 4Q270 (4QDe) --
• 105- Conclusion --
• 106- The Damascus document and 4QOrdinancesa (4Q159) -- -- Introduction
• 107- Shared content --
• 108- Correspondences in matters of sequence --
• 109- Shared scriptural basis --
• 110- Shared formal features --
• 111- Conclusion --
• 112- Priesthood in the rule texts and beyond --
• 113- The sons of Aaron -- -- Introduction
• 114- The Damascus document (d) --
• 115- The community rule (s) --
• 116- 4Q286 berakhot a --
• 117- 4Q279 (4Qfour lots; olim 4QTohorot D) --
• 118- 4Q265 miscellaneous rules olim Serekh Damascus --
• 119- The rule of the congregation --
• 120- The war scroll (M) --
• 121- 4QMMT --
• 122- Temple scroll --
• 123- 4Q174 Florilegium --
• 124- 4Q390 Apocryphon of Jeremiah Ce --
• 125- 4Q513 ordinances b --
• 126- Conclusion --
• 127- Consider ourselves in charge : self-assertion sons of Zadok Style -- -- Introduction
• 128- The Damascus document --
• 129- The community rule --
• 130- The rule of the congregation --
• 131- The rule of blessings --
• 132- 4Qpesher Isaiah c --
• 133- 4QFlorilegium --
• 134- Conclusion --
• 135- The scrolls and the emerging scriptures --
• 136- The community rule and the book of Daniel --
• 137- Setting the scene --
• 138- A shared bilingual Milieu --
• 139- The book of Daniel and the scrolls as tradents of Danielic traditions --
• 140- A claim to exilic roots --
• 141- A learned scribal context --
• 142- The significance of mystery and interpretation --
• 143- Consciousness of proximity with the Angelic realm --
• 144- The Maskilim in Daniel 11-12 --
• 145- Maskil and Rabbim in the community rule --
• 146- The restored title of the rule of the community --
• 147- The introduction to the teaching on the two spirits 1QS 3:13-4:26 --
• 148- The introduction to 1QS 5//4Q256 (4QSb) 9//4Q258 (4QSd) I --
• 149- The statutes for the Maskil 1QS 9:12-25//4Q256 (4QSb) 18:1-7// 4Q258 (4QSd) 8:1-9//4Q259 (4QSe) 3:6-4:8//4Q260 (4QSf) 1:1-2 --
• 150- Conclusion --
• 151- The Damascus document and Ezra-Nehemiah -- -- Introduction
• 152- Ezra-Nehemiah and the Damascus document : some common ground --
• 153- Location --
• 154- Community --
• 155- Issues --
• 156- Family and household structures in Ezra-Nehemiah and D --
• 157- The authority of the father in arranging marriages according to the Damascus document --
• 158- The overseer encroaches on the father's role --
• 159- A comparative analysis of the stipulations dealing with the arrangement of marriages in the Damascus document --
• 160- Conclusion --
• 161- The Serekh tradition in light of post-Qumran perspectives on the emerging Bible -- -- Introduction
• 162- The literary panorama of the rule manuscripts --
• 163- The authority of changing texts : the emerging Bible and the Serekh --
• 164- The emerging Bible and the S tradition : inconsistencies welcome! --
• 165- A farewell to the End-Serekh --
• 166- Conclusion --
• 167- The emerging Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls : a common Milieu -- -- Introduction
• 168- The scrolls as case studies of the ancient jewish literary craft --
• 169- The scrolls and the emergence of jewish Sectarianism in the persian period --
• 170- The shared scribal Milieu behind the emerging scriptures and the scrolls --
• 171- Tracing trajectories from emerging Sectarianism in the Hebrew Bible to incipient communal life attested in the scrolls --
• 172- The scrolls and recent research on the development of the Psalter --
• 173- A life dedicated to torah scholarship : Ps 1:2, Josh 1:8 and 1QS 6:6b-7a --
• 174- Conclusion --
• 175- Does 4Q equal Qumran? : the character of Cave 4 reconsidered --
• 176- 'Haskalah' at Qumran : the eclectic character of Qumran cave 4 -- -- Introduction
• 177- The Qumran scroll caves --
• 178- Qumran cave 4 --
• 179- The profile of the Caves --
• 180- Distinctive elements in the profile of Qumran Cave 4 --
• 181- Texts written in Cryptic Script --
• 182- The Maskil and Cave 4 --
• 183- Technical learning : the calendar texts --
• 184- Multiple attestation --
• 185- 4Q477 : the overseer's bookkeeping --
• 186- The 'workaday quality'of a number of Cave 4 texts --
• 187- 4Q265 miscellaneous rules --
• 188- Anthologies and compilations --
• 189- Raw data --
• 190- Serekh and refinement in Cave 1 --
• 191- A preponderance of Papyrus in Cave 4 over against Caves 1 and 11 --
• 192- Conclusion ---- Cumulative bibliography-- Index of references-- Index of modern authors.

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