Overt Acknowledgement of Practical Considerations in Legal Texts from Qumran

Updated by: 
Oren Ableman
Research notes: 
Reader Checked OA 30/04/2014 hw/16/03/2014/not checked
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Novick, Tzvi
year: 
2014
Full title: 

Overt Acknowledgement of Practical Considerations in Legal Texts from Qumran

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume: 
21
Issue / Series Volume: 
1
Abbreviated Series Name: 
DSD
Pages: 
64 – 81
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Scholars typically suppose that legal texts from Qumran do not distinguish between principle and practice. The law does not legitimate lenient accommodations to reality, nor does it explicitly implement stringencies merely as precautions. While this view is no doubt largely correct, there are notable exceptions. This article collects and analyzes these exceptions, and weighs their significance.

URL: 
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685179-12341288
Label: 
24/03/2014
Record number: 
97 748