עוד על עולמה הרוחני של יהדות הבית השני: הרהורים ותגובות בעקבות אסופת מאמריו של יעקב ליכט

My paper surveys some of the articles in Licht’s recently published collection that treat the Qumran Scrolls and Second Temple pseudepigrapha. It summarizes the important questions and insights introduced in these articles while pointing to current understandings that are the result of both the publication of the complete Qumran library and the critical approach adopted by scholars in the last generation and a half. By bringing Licht’s work to the readers’ attention, the article aims to restore this worthy body of research to public awareness and to identify the shared threads between its groundbreaking aspects and present-day scholarly achievements.