Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Enigma of the Temple Scroll

Part One The Temple Scroll

Chapter One The Law of the Temple Scroll and its Provenance

Chapter Two The Theology of the Temple Scroll

Chapter Three The Temple Scroll and the Nature of its Law: The Status of the Question

Chapter Four 'Ir Ha-Miqdash and its Meaning in the Temple Scroll and Other Qumran Texts

Chapter Five The Architectural Vocabulary of the Copper Scroll and the Temple Scroll

Part Two The Temple Scroll and other Jewish Writings

Chapter Six The Septuagint and the Temple Scroll: Shared "Halakhic" Variants

Chapter Seven The Sacrificial System of the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees

Chapter Eight Miq?at Miqsat Ma'aśe Ha-Torah and the Temple Scroll

Chapter Nine The Relationship of the Zadokite Fragments to the Temple Scroll

Chapter Ten The Temple Scroll and the Halakhic Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple Period

Chapter Eleven Descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple in Josephus and the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twelve The Prohibition of Judicial Corruption in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus and Talmudic Law

Part Three The Temple

Chapter Thirteen Architecture and Law: The Temple and its Courtyards in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Fourteen The Construction of the Temple according to the Temple Scroll

Chapter Fifteen The Furnishings of the Temple according to the Temple Scroll

Chapter Sixteen The House of the Laver in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Seventeen Sacred Space: The Land of Israel in the Temple Scroll

Part Four Sacrifices

Chapter Eighteen Sacral and Non-Sacral Slaughter according to the Temple Scroll

Chapter Nineteen The Milluim Ceremony in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty The Case of the Day of Atonement Ritual

Chapter Twenty-One Some Laws Pertaining to Animals in Temple Scroll, Column 52

Chapter Twenty-Two 'Ôlâ and hatta't in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty-Three Shelamim Sacrifices in the Temple Scroll

Part Five Purity Regulations

Chapter Twenty-Four Exclusion from the Sanctuary and the City of the Sanctuary in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty-Five The Impurity of the Dead in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty-Six Pharisaic and Sadducean Halakhah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Tevul Yom

Part Six Other Halakhot

Chapter Twenty-Seven The Deuteronomic Paraphrase of the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty-Eight Laws concerning Idolatry in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Twenty-Nine The King, his Guard, and the Royal Council in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Thirty Laws of War in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Thirty-One Laws Pertaining to Women in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Thirty-Two Priestly and Levitical Gifts in the Temple Scroll

Chapter Thirty-Three The Law of Vows and Oaths (Num 30, 3–16) in the Zadokite Fragments and the Temple Scroll

Indexes

Subject Index

Passage Index

A. Hebrew Scriptures

B. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

C. Dead Sea Scrolls

D. Classical Authors

E. New Testament Scriptures

F. Rabbinic Literature

G. Maimonides

Modern Authors Index