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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Judaism and its literature ; no. 43.Description: xviii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780884140719
  • 0884140717
  • 9780884140733
  • 0884140733
Other title:
  • Critical evaluation of some foundational hypotheses in the construction of the Qumran sect
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.8 D361Q 23
LOC classification:
  • BM487 .L66 2015
Summary: "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"--
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 296.8 D361Q (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available TBN-Oct/2017 055077

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-285) and indexes.

"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"--

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