The Laws of the Damascus Document - Sources, Traditions and Redaction

The Damascus Document is a key text among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The last eight extant copies of this document have recently been published. This volume offers a first analysis of its legal part since the publication of all the evidence.

About the author

Charlotte Hempel, Ph.D. (1995) University of London, is Sutasoma Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College Cambridge. Recent publications include The Earthly Essene Nucleus of IQSa, in Dead Sea Discoveries (1996) and The Penal Code Reconsidered in Legal Texts and Legal Issues, (Brill, 1997).

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Hempel
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.1998
• EAN: 9789004111509
• ISBN: 978-90-04-11150-9
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the De
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations