Studies in Qumran Law and Thought (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 138)

Contents
Editors’ Foreword
Abbreviations
Publications of Joseph M. Baumgarten
Introduction The Contribution of Joseph M. Baumgarten to the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism
Part 1 General Essays on Qumran Law
	Chapter 1 The Religious Law of the Qumran Community
	Chapter 2Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in theHellenistic–Roman Perio
	Chapter 2 Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in the Hellenistic–Roman Perio
Part 2 Rabbinic Literature and Qumran Law
	Chapter 3 The Relevance of Rabbinic Sources to the Study of Qumran Law
	Chapter 4 The Laws of the Damascus Document—Between Bible and Mishnah
	Chapter 5 Tannaitic Halakhah and Qumran—A Re-Evaluation
Part 3 Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran
	Chapter 6 4Q502: Marriage or Golden Age Ritual?
	Chapter 7 The Qumran–Essene Restraints on Marriage
	Chapter 8 The Pharisaic–Sadducean Controversies about Purity and the Qumran Texts
	Chapter 9 Immunity to Impurity and the Menorah
	Chapter 10 Sadducean Elements in Qumran Law
	Chapter 11 The Heavenly Tribunal and the Personification of Ṣedeq in Jewish Apocalyptic
	Chapter 12 The “Sons of Dawn” in CD 13:14–15 and the Ban on Commerce among the Essenes
	Chapter 13 The Disqualifications of Priests in 4Q Fragments of the Damascus Document: A Specimen of the Recovery of Pre-Rabbinic Halakhah
	Chapter 14 Halakhic Polemics in New Fragments from Qumran Cave 4
Part 4 Halakhic Topics
	Chapter 15 On the Non-Literal Use of Maʿăśēr/Dekatē
	Chapter 16 The First and Second Tithes in the Temple Scroll
	Chapter 17 The Laws of ʿOrlah and First Fruits in the Light of Jubilees, the Qumran Writings, and Targum Ps.-Jonathan
	Chapter 18 The Use of מי נדה for General Purification
	Chapter 19 Yom Kippur in the Qumran Scrolls and Second Temple Sources
	Chapter 20 Exclusions from the Temple: Proselytes and Agrippa I
	Chapter 21 Hanging and Treason in Qumran and Roman Law
	Chapter 22 The Avoidance of the Death Penalty in Qumran Law
	Chapter 23 Qumran and the Halakhah in the Aramaic Targumim
	Chapter 24 Some “Qumranic” Observations on the Aramaic Levi Document
Part 5 Theology and Apocalypticism
	Chapter 25 Theological Elements in the Formulation of Qumran Law
	Chapter 26 Some Theological Aspects of Second Temple Shabbat Practice
	Chapter 27 The Purification Liturgies
	Chapter 28 The Law and Spirit of Purity at Qumran
	Chapter 29 On the Nature of the Seductress in 4Q184
	Chapter 30 The Book of Elkesai and Merkabah Mysticism
	Chapter 31 The Qumran Sabbath Shirot and Rabbinic Merkabah Traditions
	Chapter 32 Messianic Forgiveness of Sin in CD 14:19 (4Q266 10 i 12–13)
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources