לשון חכמים במגילות ים המלח: זיהוי חדש של מונח הלכתי

The article reexamines a rule in 4QMMT. Josephus’s account demonstrates that, regarding this case, the stringent Qumran legislation reflects an early tradition practiced at the start of the second century BCE, whereas the lenient Pharisaic-rabbinic position must have been a novelty. The author suggests that this sectarian law presents a hitherto unidentified example of shared halakhic terminology used both in the Dead Sea Scrolls and rabbinic literature, providing further attestation to an ancient system of halakhah that preceded the sectarian schism.