The Qumran Community
The Qumran Community
Michael A. Knibb
July 1987
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This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of the Dead Sea scrolls. The writings reflect the beliefs and practices of a religious community which existed on the shores of the Dead Sea between the middle of the second century BC and AD 68. They shed considerable light on the Essenes, whose movement had an important focus at Qumran. In addition to selecting the most significant legislative, poetic and liturgical writings, Professor Knibb provides a commentary dealing with major interpretative problems raised by the extracts.
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July 1987Paperback
9780521285520
288 pages
218 × 138 × 19 mm
0.306kg
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Table of Contents
- General editors' preface
- List of abbreviations
- Chronological table
- Introduction
- The Damascus document
- The community rule
- The rule of the congregation
- The hymns
- The genesis apocryphon
- The prayer of Nabonidus
- The commentaries
- Florilegium
- Testimonia
- Index.
