Halakhah in the Making : the Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis.
Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the r...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Taubman lectures in Jewish studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Table of Contents; PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Writing Halakhah in Qumran; 2. Divine Revelation and Human Exegesis; Or, How to Recognize a False ProphetWhen You See One; 3. Scripture versus Tradition; 4. "The Foundation of the Creation"and the "Laws Written on theHeavenly Tablets"; 5. Halakhah from Qumranto the Mishnah; APPENDIX OF HEBREW TEXTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES; GENERAL INDEX.