TL;DR: The Bearing of Sin in the Priestly Literature - Baruch J. Freedman as discussed by the authors discusses the bearing of sin in the priestly literature in the Dead Sea Scrolls and discusses the relationship between sin and the passage of the third commandment in Deuteronomy.
Abstract: Preface, by David Noel Freedman Bibliography of the Published Writings of Jacob Milgrom Abbreviations SECTION I: RITUAL, LAW, AND THEIR SOURCES The Bearing of Sin in the Priestly Literature - Baruch J. Schwartz Another Prolegomenon to Leviticus 17:11 - Rolf Rendtorff Philology, Archaeology, and a Terminus a Quo for P's 'hatta't' Legislation - Ziony Zevit 'ola' and 'hatta't' in the 'Temple Scroll' - Lawrence H. Schiffman Intentional and Unintentional Sin in the Dead Sea Scrolls - Gary A. Anderson Some Considerations on the Translation of 'kapporet' in the Septuagint - Klaus Koch An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Hannah's Sacrifice - Carol Meyers The Akedah: A Paradigm of Sacrifice - Gordon J. Wenham Census and Intercession in a Priestly Text (Exodus 30:11-16) and in Its Midrashic Transformation - Michael Fishbane Conceptual Aspects in Exodus 25:1-9 - Rolf P. Knierim The Incense of the Tabernacle - Yehuda Feliks Solomon's Golden Vessels (1 Kings 7:48-50) and the Cult of the First Temple - Victor Avigdor Hurowitz Terms and Epithets Relating to the Jerusalem Temple Compound in the Book of Chronicles: The Linguistic Aspect - Avi Hurvitz Prophets, Priests, and the Efficacy of Ritual - Ronald S. Hendel Concerning Amos' Repudiation of the Cult - Meir Weiss David Autem Remansit in Hierusalem: Felix Coniunctio! - David P. Wright Sacred Geography as Narrative Structure in 2 Kings 11 - Burke O. Long Poetic Structure in Leviticus - Mary Douglas 4QLev (4Q25, 26a, 26b) - Emanuel Tov A Calendrical Scroll from a Qumran Cave: 'Mismarot' B, 4Q321 - Shemaryahu Talmon and Israel Knohl Simon the Just: Simon I or Simon II? - James C. VanderKam The Road to En-dor - Mordechai Cogan The Significance of the Veil in the Ancient Near East - Karel van der Toorn The Formula 'If He Shall Not (Do)' and the Problem of Sanctions in Biblical Law - Gershon Brin The Fundamental Code Illustrated: The Third Commandment - Herbert B. Huffmon Some Archaeological Notes on Deuteronomy - Jeffrey H. Tigay Could keleb in Deuteronomy 23:19 Actually Refer to a Canine? - Elaine Adler Goodfriend The Social-Legal Origin for the Image of God as Redeemer of Israel - Jeremiah Unterman The Place of the People in the Making of Law and Judgment - Ze'ev Weisman The Rhetoric of Collective Responsibility in Deuteronomic Law - Dale Patrick Matrilineal Determination of Jewishness: Biblical and Near Eastern Roots - Mayer I. Gruber A Fragment on Fetal Life and Pregnancy in 4Q270 - Joseph M. Baumgarten Stylistic Conceits II: The Absolute Infinitive in Biblical Law - Reuven Yaron On the Political Use of the Bible in Modern Israel: An Engaged Critique - Moshe Greenberg A Peace of Compromise between Israel and the Arabs - Ze'ev W. Falk SECTION II: OTHER LITERARY, HISTORICAL, AND LINGUISTIC STUDIES Unruly Elements in Late Bronze Canaanite Society: Anson F. Rainey Genesis 14: An Enigma - Francis I. Andersen Juxtaposition in the Abraham Cycle - Yair Zakovitch Reuben's Sin with Bilhah in the 'Testament of Reuben' - James Kugel The Firstborn Plague and the Reading Process - Edward L. Greenstein A Contest of Magicians? The Plague Stories in P - John Van Seters The Hidden Made Manifest: Muslim Traditions and the 'Latent Content' of Biblical and Rabbinic Stories - David J. Halperin The Song of Deborah and Barak: Its Prosodic Levels and Structure - Jan P. Fokkelman Observations on the Jael-Sisera Story (Judges 4-5) - Baruch Margalit Reflections on Historiography in the Account of Jehoshaphat - Ralph W. Klein The Deuteronomist and the Exile - Yair Hoffman The 'Desert of the Sea' Pronouncement (Isaiah 21:1-10) - Benjamin Uffenheimer A Misunderstood Medieval Translation of 'sered' (Isaiah 44:13) and Its Impact on Modern Scholarship - Joshua Blau Jeremiah's Instructions to Seraiah (Jeremiah 51:59-64) - William McKane Hosea 7:16: Gibberish Jabber - Shalom M. Paul The Crisis of the Mid-fifth Century B.C.E. Second Zechariah and the 'End' of Prophecy - Eric M. Meyers The Structure of Psalm 119 - David Noel Freedman Some Performative Utterances in the Bible - Delbert R. Hillers Scurrilous Etymologies - William W. Hallo Some Remarks on the Semantics of the Root 'b't' in Classical Hebrew - Jacob Hoftijzer Is There a Word for the Royal Harem in the Bible? - Abraham Malamat The '*qatala' Form in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry - Mark S. Smith 4Q127: An Unknown Jewish Apocryphal Work? - Devorah Dimant Sage and Super-sage in Philo of Alexandria - David Winston INDEXES Index of Authors Index of Scripture Index of Ancient Sources
TL;DR: The authors develops the concept of a discourse whose creativity and authority depend on repeated returns to the exemplary figure and experience of a founder, whose function is to re-present the experience of revelation at Sinai.
Abstract: What is meant by attributing texts to Moses in Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism? The answer depends not only on the history of texts but also on the history of concepts of textuality. This book criticizes the terms "Pseudepigraphy" and "Rewritten Bible", which presuppose conceptions of authentic attribution and textual fidelity foreign to ancient Judaism. Instead, this book develops the concept of a discourse whose creativity and authority depend on repeated returns to the exemplary figure and experience of a founder. Attribution to Moses is a central example, whose function is to re-present the experience of revelation at Sinai. Distinctive features of Mosaic discourse are studied in Deuteronomy, Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the works of Philo of Alexandria.
TL;DR: Magness as discussed by the authors provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran and presents an exciting new interpretation of this ancient community based on information found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other contemporary documents.
Abstract: Written with an expert's insight yet an easily readable style, this important book is certain to reinvigorate discussion of this monumental archaeological find. Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Qumran site continues to be the object of intense scholarly debate. In a book intended to introduce general readers to this fascinating area of study, Magness provides an overview of the archaeology of Qumran and presents an exciting new interpretation of this ancient community based on information found in the Scrolls and other contemporary documents.
Abstract: hard. It will be a major task, a major campaign like the first one, though with the good fortune of having the first to guide its destructive slicing away. While there are many ancient tells in Israel and Jordan waiting for those who would attack fresh ground, mounds dug in an earlier day are now feeling a fresh attack on the mysteries of the old ground Jerusalem, Shechem, Samaria, Gezer, Megiddo. To this list someone someday will have to add Beth-shan.