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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Shemesh, Aharon
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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 relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-yea.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (234 pages).
ISBN:9780520945036