RT Article
T1 Legislating the Lips: Revisiting Vows and Oaths in the Temple Scroll and the Damascus Document
JF Dead Sea discoveries
VO 26
IS 1
SP 76
OP 99
A1 Cizek, Paul
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/168368589X
AB The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11-54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6-12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22-24 and Num 30:3-17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent and links this conclusion with his position that the Temple Scroll is Sadducean and the Damascus Document comes from a later Sadducean splinter group. However, my analysis leads to a different conclusion. I demonstrate that the authors of the Temple Scroll and Damascus Document evidence distinct aims in their appropriations of shared base texts, but not necessarily incongruence nor intentional divergence.
K1 Damascus Document
K1 Deuteronomy
K1 Numbers
K1 Temple Scroll
K1 annulments
K1 Oaths
K1 Vows
DO 10.1163/15685179-12341466