?כיא בחרו בקלות': חומרה קומראנית או מהפכה תנאית'

Updated by: 
Un Sung Kwak
Research notes: 
reader checked 12/01/2012 AL/ Updated by USK / 19 / 05 / 2016 / to add online link for CD A
Reference type: 
Hebrew Book Section;
Author(s): 
Noam, Vered
year: 
2010
Full title: 

?כיא בחרו בקלות': חומרה קומראנית או מהפכה תנאית'

Translated title: 
'Choosing the Path of Lenience': Qumranic Stringency or Tannaitic Leniency?
Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
מגילות: מחקרים במגילות מדבר יהודה ח־ט [Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls VIII-IX]
Volume: 
8-9
Editor(s): 
Bar-Asher, Moshe
Dimant, Devorah
Place of Publication: 
Jerusalem
Publisher: 
Haifa University Press and Bialik Institute
Pages: 
211-226
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Scholarly research tends to attribute extreme stringency to the legislation of the sect of the Yahad. It is indeed undeniable that the sect generally adopts stringent positions as compared to rabbinic halakhah. However, closer examination indicates that Qumranic law reflects simple, necessary inferences from Scripture itself, whereas tannaitic leniency represents a surprisingly revolutionary divergence from Scripture's plain meaning. In other words, the strictness of Qumranic law is not "objective" but relative. The understanding that sectarian law reflects a series of inductions not altogether removed from the simple sense of Scripture facilitates a more accurate appreciation of the depth of tannaitic halakhah's ground breaking leniency.

Notes: 
CD A Online Link: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-K-00006/1
Language: 
Hebrew
URL: 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/23438301?seq=1
Label: 
07/02/2011
Record number: 
7 845