Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies of the Texts of Thedesert of Judah) [Hardcover]

Steven D. Fraade (Editor), Aharon Shemesh (Editor), Ruth A. Clements (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Studies of the Texts of Thedesert of Judah | Publication Date: November 30, 2006

The studies in this volume examine the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls with early rabbinic literature. Methodological attention is paid to questions of the nature of sectarian and rabbinic law and narrative, and how they may elucidate one another.

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About the Author

Steven D. Fraade, Ph.D. (1980), The University of Pennsylvania, is the Mark Taper Professor of the History of Judaism in the Religious Studies Department and the Judaic Studies Program, Yale University.

Aharon Shemesh, Ph.D. (1984), Bar-Ilan University, is Associate Professor in the Department of Talmud, Bar-Ilan University, and a Fellow of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem.

Ruth A. Clements, Th.D. (1997), Harvard University Divinity School, is Chief of Publications at the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: BRILL (November 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004153357
• ISBN-13: 978-9004153356
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
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BOOKS:
Enosh and His Generation: Pre-Israelite Hero and History in Post-Biblical Interpretation. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series, no. 30. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984. 301 pp.

From Tradition to Commentary: Torah and its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy. Jewish Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion Series. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. 343 pp.

Rabbinic Perspectives: Rabbinic Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 7-9 January, 2003, ed. Steven D. Fraade, Aharon Shemesh, and Ruth A. Clements. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 62. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

Legal Fictions: Studies of Law and Narrative in the Discursive Worlds of Ancient Jewish Sectarians and Sages. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 147. Leiden: Brill, 2011. 627 pp.