The Temple Scroll and Related Texts

by Sidnie White Crawford

Publisher:

Sheffield Academic Press

, 2000

Overview

This volume is a comprehensive roadmap to the Temple Scroll, the longest and one of the most complex of the manuscripts from Qumran. The central chapter contains a discussion of the contents of the Temple Scroll, including sections on the Temple and its courts, purity regulation, the festival calendar, and the Deuteronomic Paraphrase with the Law of the King. This volume also includes a chapter on the Description of the New Jerusalem, as well as one on the relationship of the Temple Scroll to the Book of Jubilees, 4QMiqsat Ma'aseh ha-Torah, and the Damascus Document.

Product Details

• Title: The Temple Scroll and Related Texts
• Author: Sidnie White Crawford
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 104

About Sidnie White Crawford

Judith Anne Brown is the daughter of John Marco Allegro, a freelance writer and editor, and an associate of the Plain Language Commission. Her work on John Marco Allegro also appears in Manchester and the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by George J. Brooke. She lives in Derbyshire, England, with her husband and two children.