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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...

by the Chronicler, contain material pertaining to numerous halakhic matters.4 I shall survey some of these in list format. 1. Intermarriage. A complex adaptation of Exod 34:15–16 and Deut 7:3 (cf. Josh 23:7, 12–13) underlies the narrative of Ezra 9:1–2 and presents us with the law forbidding intermarriage of Israelites with non-Israelites that is also found in the covenant of Neh 10:31(30) This prohibition has become a norm in all trends of Jewish law. In this context we hear about the forcible separation
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