דרכי ההפצה של טומאת זב ובעל קרי בהלכת קומראן: עיון במגילת טהרה א (4Q274)

Updated by: 
Neta Rozenblit
Research notes: 
NR\Reader checked\01/06/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Shemesh, Aharon
year: 
2014
Full title: 

דרכי ההפצה של טומאת זב ובעל קרי בהלכת קומראן: עיון במגילת טהרה א (4Q274)

Translated title: 
Transmitttting Regular and Irregular Semen Impurity at Qumran: A study of 4QTohoraa (4Q274)
Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Tarbiz
Volume: 
82
Issue / Series Volume: 
4
Pages: 
513-528
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Lev. 15:1-15 discusses in detail the ways in which a man who had an irregular penile discharge, a zab, transmits his impurity. Direct contact with a zab, touching or carrying his seat or bed can all conduct this impurity. In verses 16-18 however, Leviticus only briefly discusses the impurity of regular seminal discharges, and goes into less detail. This discrepancy encourages interpretive efforts, one of which can be found at Qumran.
A Qumran scroll, 4QTohoraa (4Q274), offers a sectarian reading of this biblical passage. Fragment 2 particularly discusses the laws of semen impurity using the terminology used in Leviticus concerning zab. The article offers a new reading of fragment 2 and reconstructs the fundamental principles behind the creation of these laws.

Language: 
Hebrew
Hebrew bible: 
Book: 
Leviticus
Chapter(s): 
15
Verse(s): 
3-12
Book: 
Leviticus
Chapter(s): 
15
Verse(s): 
16-18
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
4Q274
Section type: 
Fragment
Passage: 
2
Scroll / Document: 
4Q272
Section type: 
Fragment
Passage: 
1
URL: 
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/units.php?cat=5082
Label: 
22/06/2015
Record number: 
100 555