The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/03/12/2019
Reference type: 
Book
Author(s): 
Metso, Sarianna
year: 
2019
Full title: 

The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Early Judaism and Its Literature
Issue / Series Volume: 
51
Abbreviated Series Name: 
EJL
Place of Publication: 
Atlanta
Publisher: 
SBL Press
Work type: 
Text edition
Abstract: 

The discovery and translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed our understanding of the life and history of ancient Jewish communities when both rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity were emerging. As part of this rich discovery, the Community Rule serves to illuminate the religious beliefs and practices as well as the organizational rules of the group behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, there is no single, unified text of the Community Rule; rather, multiple manuscripts of the Community Rule show considerable variation and highlight the work of ancient Jewish scribes and their intentional literary development of the text. In this volume, Sarianna Metso brings together the surviving evidence in a new edition that presents a critically established Hebrew text with an introduction and an English translation.

Features:
A critical apparatus and textual notes
All the surviving evidence of the Community Rule
A new method for presenting complex developments and transmission history of ancient texts

Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
1QS
Label: 
16/12/2019
Record number: 
105 953