Sectarian law in the Dead Sea scrolls courts, testimony and the penal code
"This volume examines the sectarian legal system, specifically its courts, court proƯcedure, rules of testimony and the Penal Code. Schiffman argues that the legal system portrayed in the scrolls coheres organically with the community's theological outlook and idealized vision of itself. H...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chico, Baltimore, Md.
Scholars Press, Project MUSE
2020, 2020©2020
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Brown Judaic studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "This volume examines the sectarian legal system, specifically its courts, court proƯcedure, rules of testimony and the Penal Code. Schiffman argues that the legal system portrayed in the scrolls coheres organically with the community's theological outlook and idealized vision of itself. His argument thus challenges attempts to see the scrolls as having been produced by multiple groups, randomly collected and preserved."--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Edition statement from online full metadata page. - "This edition incorporates typographical corrections of the original text"--Publishers' preface. - "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso. - "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License."--T.p. verso |
| Physical Description: | 298 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781946527943 9781951498467 |