Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran

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Interpreting and Living God's Law at Qumran

Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)

Edited by Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Eibert Tigchelaaar, Noam Mizrahi, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Charlotte Hempel, Vered Noam, John J. Collins, Lutz Doering and Jörg Frey

[Leben und Interpretation des Gesetzes Gottes in Qumran. Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Einiges von den Werken der Tora (4QMMT).]

2020. XI, 249 pages.

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia (SAPERE)

DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-159706-0

Sponsored by: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen

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The text Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT), is the oldest witness from pre-Christian, Hellenistic times for the explicit interpretation of the Jewish law, the so-called Halakha, as it became customary and was widely attested in later rabbinical tradition. This volume provides a new edition and translation as well as several contributions from renowned scholars on the manuscripts, the language and content plus literary and historical contexts of this writing.

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Lutz Doering Born 1966; studied Theology and Jewish Studies at Erlangen, Jerusalem and Heidelberg; 1998 Dr. theol., Göttingen; 1999-2003 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Jena; 2004-09 Lecturer in New Testament, King's College London; 2009-14 Reader in New Testament and Ancient Judaism, Durham University; since 2014 Professor of New Testament and Ancient Judaism and academic head of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, University of Münster.

Jörg Frey Geboren 1962; 1996 Dr. theol.; 1998 Habilitation (beides Tübingen); 2024 Dr. h.c. (Uppsala); war Professor in Jena (1998) und München (1999) und ist seit 2010 Professor für Neues Testament mit Schwerpunkten Antikes Judentum und Hermeneutik an der Universität Zürich und Research Associate am Department of Old and New Testament der University of the Free State, Bloemfontein (Südafrika).

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Reinhard Gregor Kratz Geboren 1957; Studium der Gräzistik und Ev. Theologie in Frankfurt a.M., Heidelberg und Zürich; Promotion und Habilitation in Zürich; Professor für Altes Testament in Göttingen.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4306-1730

Charlotte Hempel Born 1966; 1991 BA; 1995 PhD; 1995-99 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge; 1999-2004 Maternity Career Break; 2005 Research Fellow, 2008 Senior Research Fellow, 2010 Senior Lecturer, 2013 Reader and since 2016 Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham, UK.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-1627

John J. Collins Born 1946; 1972 PhD; 1985-91 Professor at the University of Notre Dame; 1991-2000 Professor at the University of Chicago; since 2000 Holmes Professor of Old Testament in Yale.

Eibert Tigchelaaar is research professor of Biblical Studies at the KU Leuven. His main field of research is the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Noam Mizrahi is an associate professor at the Department of Biblical Studies, Tel Aviv University. His main field of research is Hebrew philology, with special attention to the interaction between historical-linguistic study of Biblical and Qumran Hebrew, textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and the compositional history of biblical and Second Temple literature.

Jonathan Ben-Dov Born 1971; has been a research fellow at New York University (ISAW), The University of Durham, and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem); currently associate professor at the department of Bible, Tel Aviv University.

Vered Noam is the chair of Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology, and teaches Talmud and Second Temple Jewish Literature at the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University. Her main fields of research are Rabbinic Literature, Second Temple Literature and Early Halakhah.