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Zusatztext "Sarianna Metso's The Serekh Texts is an important contribution to scholarship on this group of Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts. The volume is published as an entry in two T&T Clark series, the Library of Second Temple Studies and the Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series. It is a comprehensive introduction to particular Qumran texts and relevant scholarship, as characterizes the latter...this is a very valuable introduction to the Serekh texts that goes far beyond the basics. Metso, clearly in strong command of the primary and secondary sources, has succeeded admirably in her treatment of the texts and her proposal to explain their function in the life of the Qumran community...This volume should be required reading for anyone undertaking serious work on this corpus and on the Dead Sea Scrolls in general." - Eric F. Mason, Review of Biblical Literature, August 2008 Informationen zum Autor Sarianna Metso is Associate Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and author of The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Leiden: Brill, 1997). Klappentext This book discusses the central rule documents! called Serekh texts! produced by a pious Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea at the turn of the era. The texts describe the life of a highly ascetic group that had rejected the hellenistic mainstream Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah. There are few other contemporary Jewish sources in which the life and religious practices of a Jewish group are so vividly and authentically illustrated. Vorwort The Serekh Texts opens up a fascinating window to the life of a highly ascetic group that had rejected mainstream Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah. This book discusses the central rule documents produced by a pious Jewish community. Zusammenfassung Discusses the central rule documents, called "Serek" texts, produced by a Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea. The texts describe the life of an ascetic group that had rejected the hellenistic mainstream Jewish culture and had withdrawn into the desert to live a life of perfect obedience to the Torah. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editions, Translations, and Bibliographies 1.Introduction 2. Genre and Contents 3. Phases of Textual Growth 4. Commentary on Key Passages 5. The Community Rule and the Bible 6. Texts Related to the Community Rule 7. Function of Rule Texts in the Essene Community Cumulative Bibliography ...
