TY  - BOOK
AU  - Werrett,Ian C.
TI  - Ritual purity and the Dead Sea scrolls
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2007
SN  - 9789047423010
AV  - BM702 .W47 2007
U1  - 296.7/42 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Judaism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-326) and indexes; Preliminary Material; I. Werrett --; Chapter One. Introduction; I. Werrett --; Chapter Two. The Damascus Document; I. Werrett --; Chapter Three. The Temple Scroll; I. Werrett --; Chapter Four. 4QMMT; I. Werrett --; Chapter Five. Other Cave 4 Manuscripts; I. Werrett --; Chapter Six. Comparison; I. Werrett --; Chapter Seven. Conclusions; I. Werrett --; Appendices: Biblical Correspondences; I. Werrett --; Bibliography; I. Werrett --; Indices; I. Werrett; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This book represents the first comprehensive study on the concept of ritual purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls since the full publication of the legal material from Qumran. Utilizing an independent approach to the relevant documents from Qumran, this study discusses the primary and secondary literature on the five major categories of impurity in the scrolls (i.e., diseases, clean/unclean animals, corpses, bodily discharges, and sexual misdeeds). This examination is supported by a comparison between the scrolls’ purity legislations and their biblical counterparts. The book culminates with a comparison between the purity rulings in the scrolls and a diachronic reading of the explicit agreements and disagreements found therein. The result is a far more comprehensive and nuanced interpretation than has been previously offered
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004156234.i-349
ER  -