The Community Rule: A Critical Edition with Translation

by Sarianna Metso

The Dead Sea Scrolls text known as the Community Rule describes the religious beliefs and practices as well as the organizational rules of the group behind the Scrolls. However, different manuscripts of the Community Rule show considerable variation, which displays the work of ancient Jewish scribes and their intentional literary development of the text. In this volume, Sarianna Metso brings together the surviving evidence in a new edition that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884140563
• ISBN13: 9780884140566
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"