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The Courtyards of the House of the Lord
BRILL 2008; US$ 193.00Presents the author's studies on the "Temple Scroll". This book uncovers the hermeneutics of the Zadokite/Sadducean legal system and compares and contrasts it with other texts of its own type as well as with those in rabbinic literature preserving the Pharisaic-rabbinic approach. more...
Defining Identities
BRILL 2007; US$ 144.00Contains 15 of the papers read at the Fifth Meeting of the IOQS, celebrated in Groningen 27-28 July, 2004. This title focuses on the identity formation of the group or groups represented in the Scrolls and explores issues of self-definition of Jewish groups in relation to, or in reaction towards other groups within Judaism. more...
Qumranica Minora II
BRILL 2007; US$ 196.00Brings together fourteen studies of Florentino Garcia Martinez on a variety of thematic topics from the "Dead Sea Scrolls", including English translations of essays that were hitherto only available in French or Spanish. The studies in this work range from essays on the interpretation of the biblical texts in the Scrolls, to more general... more...
Head of All Years
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Covering a wide array of sources from ancient Mesopotamia to the Dead Sea Scrolls, this volume offers a different perspective on Jewish apocalyptic time-reckoning during the Second Temple period, based on a calendar year of 364 days. more...
Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature
BRILL 2007; US$ 108.00"Deviancy in Early Rabbinic Literature" deals with the status of those groups and individuals who, for various reasons, appear to have no place in mainstream Rabbinic Jewish society, or may be perceived by that society as posing a threat to its norms and to its very existence. The book examines the thoughts and attitudes of the Rabbis set... more...
Expectations of the End
BRILL 2009; US$ 226.00This book provides a comparative traditio-historical study of the full range of Qumran texts and recensions now available and of New Testament texts with regard to ideas about the final age, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism. more...
From the Damascus Covenant to the Covenant of the Community
BRILL 2007; US$ 288.00Focusing on the history of covenantal theology in the Dead Sea Scrolls, this title offers insights into the origins of the "new covenant in the land of Damascus" and the Qumran community, and explores topics related to their covenantal theology. more...
The Karaites of Galicia
BRILL 2008; US$ 218.00Focuses on the history, ethnography, and convoluted ethnic identity of the Karaites, an ethnoreligious group in Eastern Galicia (modern Ukraine). This book offers the comprehensive study of the Galician Karaite community from its earliest days with the main emphasis placed on the period from 1772 until 1945. more...
Tractates Sanhedrin, Makkot, and Horaiot
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 280.00This is volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. The common topic of the tractates in this volume is procedural civil and criminal law, and the theory of the rabbinate, in addition to a Chapter on Divine judgement and the World of immortal souls. more...
Secularism and Religion in Jewish-Israeli Politics
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 140.00Common discourse on Jewish identity in Israel is dominated by the view that Jewish Israelis can, and should, be either religious or secular. Moving away from this conventional framework, this book examines the role of secularism and religion in Jewish society and politics. With a focus on the ?traditionists? ( masortim ) who comprise over a third... more...









