Q = Qumran; MMT = ‘miqsat maʾse hatorah’ or ‘some precepts of the torah’)? Is the explanation of the Wicked Priest’s ability to travel on Yom Kippur to be found in the use of divergent calendars in the Qumran community and at the official Jerusalem cultus? It is perhaps an exaggeration, but maybe only slightly so, to say that the scholarly publications on the pesharim alone can fill a small library. For the uninitiated student and reader, becoming familiar with this substantial body of scholarly
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