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The Laws of the Damascus Document: Sources, Tradition, and Redaction »

Authors: Charlotte Hempel
ISBN-13: 9781589832565, ISBN-10: 1589832566
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Date Published: January 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface
I	Introduction	1
II	Identifying Sources and Redactional Activity	15
III	Halakhah	25
IV	Community Organization Part One: Admission into the Covenant Community	73
V	Community Organization Part Two: Administration of Justice	91
VI	Community Organization Part Three: The Organization of the Camps	105
VII	Community Organization Part Four: The Penal Code	141
	Summary and Conclusion to Chapters Four-Seven	149
VIII	Miscellaneous Pieces of Halakhah	153
IX	Catalogue of Transgressions	163
X	Transitional Chapter Introducing the Laws	171
XI	Expulsion Ceremony and the End of the Document	175
XII	Conclusion	187
	Bibliography	193
	Indices	205