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- Dedication
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research
- Khirbet Qumran and Its Environs
- The Qumran Cemetery Reassessed
- Constructing Ancient Judaism from the Scrolls
- The Origins and History of the Teacher's Movement
- Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Sectarian Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Classical Sources on the Essenes and the Scrolls Communities
- Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism
- Qumran Calendars and Sectarianism
- The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls
- Assessing the Text‐Critical Theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran
- Authoritative Scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Rewritten Scripture
- The Continuity of Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls
- Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Apocalypticism and Messianism
- Exploring the Mystical Background of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Wisdom Literature and Thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Iranian Connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Was the Dead Sea Sect a Penitential Movement?
- Critical Issues in the Investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament
- Monotheism, Principal Angels, and the Background of Christology
- Shared Exegetical Traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament
- Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
- The Contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the Study of Ancient Jewish Liturgy
- Reviewing the Links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah
- Rhetorical Criticism and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls
- Roland Barthes and the Teacher of Righteousness:: The Death of the Author of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Scrolls and the Legal Definition of Authorship
- Index
- Name Index
Abstract and Keywords
The main principles of Qumran calendars are known to most scholars, but only a small circle of specialists have studied them in detail. The centrality of the calendars to Qumran culture, and more particularly sectarianism, was already recognized in the first decade of Qumran scholarship, chiefly by Shemaryahu Talmon, who went as far as arguing that the calendar was one of the cornerstones of Qumran's sectarian schism. This article first assesses the extent to which Qumran calendars differed from other Jewish calendars, both as literary compositions and – if Qumran calendars were ever used in practice – as structures of communal and religious life. The final part of this article assesses their long-standing interpretation as cornerstones of Qumran sectarianism. Qumran calendars can almost all be reduced to a single, common denominator: the 364-day year.
Keywords: Qumran calendars, Jewish calendars, Qumran sectarianism, religious life, 364-day year, Shemaryahu Talmon
Sacha Stern is Professor of Rabbinic Judaism in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research
- Khirbet Qumran and Its Environs
- The Qumran Cemetery Reassessed
- Constructing Ancient Judaism from the Scrolls
- The Origins and History of the Teacher's Movement
- Women in Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Sectarian Communities in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Classical Sources on the Essenes and the Scrolls Communities
- Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism
- Qumran Calendars and Sectarianism
- The Book of Enoch and the Qumran Scrolls
- Assessing the Text‐Critical Theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran
- Authoritative Scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Rewritten Scripture
- The Continuity of Biblical Interpretation in the Qumran Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
- Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek in the Qumran Scrolls
- Purity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Apocalypticism and Messianism
- Exploring the Mystical Background of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Wisdom Literature and Thought in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Iranian Connections in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Was the Dead Sea Sect a Penitential Movement?
- Critical Issues in the Investigation of the Scrolls and the New Testament
- Monotheism, Principal Angels, and the Background of Christology
- Shared Exegetical Traditions between the Scrolls and the New Testament
- Halakhah between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Literature
- The Contribution of the Qumran Scrolls to the Study of Ancient Jewish Liturgy
- Reviewing the Links between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah
- Rhetorical Criticism and the Reading of the Qumran Scrolls
- Roland Barthes and the Teacher of Righteousness:: The Death of the Author of the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Scrolls and the Legal Definition of Authorship
- Index
- Name Index
