Festschriften and Collected Essays

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Festschriften and Collected Essays Christopher T. Begg, Fred W. Guyette, and Thomas Hieke 894. [The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts] Élodie Attia and Anthony Perrot (eds.), The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium (Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible 6; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022). Pp. xxiv + 461. $179. ISBN 978-90-04-49872-3. In this collective volume, scholars from different fields and dealing with different material sources seek to consider the Hebrew Bible as a whole. As they note, the development of new databases and other technological tools have had an increasing impact on research practices. By inviting doctoral students, young researchers, and established scholars to contribute, the editors have produced an interdisciplinary volume which showcases methods and perspectives which can support scholarly collaboration in the Hebrew Bible field. [Adapted from published abstract] The volume comprises a total of 14 articles, all of which are in English and each of which comes with its own bibliography. These articles are preceded by the editors' preface which provides summaries of the articles that follow. The volume comes with indexes of modern authors, sources, and manuscripts. For abstracts of the articles, see ##98, 113, 116, 123, 133, 134, 140, 143, 150, 152, 155, 798, 805, 827.—C.T.B. 895. [Studies in Qumran Law and Thought] Joseph M. Baumgarten (ed. by Ruth A. Clements and Daniel R. Schwartz, with an introductory essay by Lawrence H. Schiffman), Studies in Qumran Law and Thought (STDJ 138; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2022). Pp. xxviii + 413. $159. ISBN 978-90-04-50548-5. B. (1928–2008) was a much-published scholar known especially for his study of the legal issues posed by the Qumran materials in relation to the wider Jewish legal tradition. The front-matter of this memorial volume comprises an editors' foreword, a list of abbreviations, a bibliography of B.'s contributions, and an introduction by L. H. Schiffman entitled "The Contribution of Joseph M. Baumgarten to the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Judaism." The 32 essays by B. selected for inclusion in this volume have all been previously published in some form in the years 1979–2006. They are partitioned among five overarching headings as follows: Part 1 General Essays on Qumran Law includes: "The Religious Law of the Qumran Community" (this is the English original of the French translation that appeared in print in 1996) and "Recent Qumran Discoveries and Halakhah in the Hellenistic-Roman Period" (originally published 1991). Part 2 Rabbinic Literature and Qumran Law features three items: "The Relevance of Rabbinic Sources to the Study of Qumran Law" (1999); "The Laws of the Damascus Document—Between Bible and Mishnah" (2000); and "Tannaitic Halakhah and Qumran—A Re-evaluation" (2006). The volume's next segment, Part 3: Pharisees and Sadducees, Essenes, and Qumran, contains a total of 9 essays: "4Q502: Marriage or Golden Age Ritual?" (1983); "The Qumran-Essene Restraints on Marriage" (1983); "The Pharisaic-Sadducean Controversies about Purity and the Qumran Texts" (1980); "Immunity to Impurity and the Menorah" (2006); "Sadducean Elements in Qumran Law" (1994); "The Heavenly Tribunal and the Personification of Ṣedeq in Jewish Apocalyptic" (1979); "The 'Sons of Dawn' in CD 13:14-15 and the Ban on Commerce among the Essenes" (1983); "The Disqualification of Priests in 4QFragments of the Damascus Document: A Specimen of the Recovery of Pre-Rabbinic [End Page 308] Halakhah" (1992); and "Halakhic Polemics in New Fragments from Qumran Cave 4" (1985). Part 4 Halakhic Topics is made up of ten essays: "On the Non-Literal Use of Maʿāśēr/Dekatē" (1984); "The First and Second Tithes in the Temple Scroll" (1985); "The Law of ʿOrlah and First Fruits in the Light of Jubilees, the Qumran Writings, and Targum Ps.-Jonathan" (1987); "The Use of for General Purification" (2000); "Yom Kippur in the Qumran Scrolls and Second Temple Sources" (1999); "Exclusions from the Temple: Proselytes and Agrippa I" (1982); "Hanging and Treason in Qumran and Roman Law" (1982); "The Avoidance of the Death Penalty in Qumran Law" (2005); "Qumran and the Halakhah in the Aramaic Targumim" (2005); and "Some 'Qumranic' Observations on the Aramaic Levi Document" (2004). Finally, Part 5 Theology and...