4Q274 1 i-שילוח טמאים מה'מחנה' על פי מגילת המקדש כתבי יוסף בן מתתיהו ו

Full title
4Q274 1 i-שילוח טמאים מה'מחנה' על פי מגילת המקדש כתבי יוסף בן מתתיהו ו
Research notes

Reader Checked|OA 23/12/2013

Reference type
Author(s)
Birenboim, Hanan
Editor(s)
Bar-Asher, Moshe
Dimant, Devorah
Year
2013
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
מגילות: מחקרים במגילות מדבר יהודה [Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls]
Translated title
Expelling the Unclean from the “Camp” According to 4Q274 1 i, 11QTa and the Writings of Josephus
Issue / Series Volume
[10] י
Publisher
Haifa University Press and Bialik Institute
Place of Publication
Jerusalem
Pages
15-30
Work type
Language
Label
16/12/2013
Abstract

4Q274 1 i addresses the removal of impure individuals from inhabited areas and the repercussions of contact with various types of impure individuals. The text asserts (like 11QTa) that only lepers need to be excluded from the cities of Israel while afflicted. Other impurity bearers are not removed from the cities while discharging, but are isolated within them, according to the idea of “graded purification” . Josephus also claims that only lepers and zavim are to be distanced from the cities. This difference between lepers and other impure individuals ensues from an attempt to resolve the inconsistency between disparate scriptural traditions concerning the expulsion of different impurity bearers from the camp.