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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795443203321

Autore

Looijer Gwynned de

Titolo

The Qumran paradigm : a critical evaluation of some foundational hypotheses in the construction of the Qumran sect / / Gwynned de Looijer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta, [Georgia] : , : SBL Prss, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-88414-072-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 pages)

Collana

Early Judaism and its literature ; ; Number 43

Disciplina

296.8/15

Soggetti

Qumran community

Judaism - History - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Gwynned de Looijer reexamines the key hypotheses that have driven scholars' understandings of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran, and the textual descriptions of the Essenes. She demonstrates that foundational hypotheses regarding a sect at Qumran have heavily influenced the way the texts found in the surrounding caves are interpreted. De Looijer's approach abandon's those assumptions to illustrate that the Dead Sea Scrolls reflect a wider range of backgrounds reflecting the many diverse forms of Judaism that existed in the Second Temple period"--