Abstract
The regulations concerning matrimony and divorce at Qumran have been the subject of much scholarly debate. In a recent study of 4Q271 3, A. Shemesh has argued that the Qumran community viewed the marital bond in ontological terms; hence, sexual congress alone suffices in effecting marriage, a position also attested in rabbinic literature and, possibly, New Testament sources.) On this view, so it is argued, the sect interpreted the anomalous passage at Deut 22:13-21,2 which prescribes execution for a newly-wed wife found to have engaged in pre-marital sex, as reflecting the fact that the maiden's present marriage is, by definition, an act of adultery toward her previous
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