TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shemesh,Aharon
TI  - Halakhah in the Making: the Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis
T2  - Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
SN  - 9780520945036
AV  - BM520.52 .S54 2009 
U1  - 296.1/80902296.180902 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls
KW  - fast
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Qumran community
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Judaism
KW  - To 70 A.D
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Sacred Writings
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Halacha
KW  - gtt
KW  - Dode-Zeerollen
KW  - Rabbijnse literatuur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Rabbinismus
KW  - J�udisches Recht
KW  - Qumran
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Cover; Table of Contents; PREFACE; Introduction; 1. Writing Halakhah in Qumran; 2. Divine Revelation and Human Exegesis; Or, How to Recognize a False ProphetWhen You See One; 3. Scripture versus Tradition; 4. "The Foundation of the Creation"and the "Laws Written on theHeavenly Tablets"; 5. Halakhah from Qumranto the Mishnah; APPENDIX OF HEBREW TEXTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES; GENERAL INDEX
N2  - Halakhah in the Making offers the first comprehensive study of the legal material found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and its significance in the greater history of Jewish religious law (halakhah). Aharon Shemesh's pioneering study revives an issue long dormant in religious scholarship: namely, the relationship between rabbinic law, as written more than one hundred years after the destruction of the Second Temple, and Jewish practice during the Second Temple. The monumental discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Qumran led to the revelation of this missing material and the closing of a two-hundred-yea
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnr0k
ER  -