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Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Major changes are occurring in our understanding of the fascinating texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and their significance for the study of the history of Judaism and Christianity. One of the most significant changes—that one cannot study Qumran without Jerusalem nor Jerusalem without Qumran—is explored in this important volume. Although the Scrolls preserve the peculiar ideology of the Qumran...

high priesthood with their own, and the Zadokites were reduced to a subsidiary position for as long as Hasmonean rule lasted. It had long been theorized that some disaffected Zadokites separated themselves from their brethren in Jerusalem and formed the Qumran sect.25 This origin would explain why the sect so often refers to itself or its leaders as “the Sons of Zadok.”26 If this is true, our text makes clear that Sons of Zadok is to be taken at face value. The founders of the Qumran sect were Sadducees
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