Wisdom and Law in the Hebrew Bible and at Qumran

Bibliographic Data

ID10907985
AuthorsCharlotte Hempel (0000-0002-8106-1627, University of BirminghamUK, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue2
Pages155-181
Publication date2017-04-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Study of Judaism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2212 • E-ISSN: 1570-0631
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700631-12340144
OpenAlexW2600494812
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited5

This article begins by noting the paucity of engagement between scholarship on the Dead Sea Scrolls ( dss ) and a number of significant studies on the relationship of wisdom and law in the Hebrew Bible. A substantial case study on Proverbs 1-9 and the Community Rule from Qumran is put in conversation with the seminal work of, especially, Moshe Weinfeld on Deuteronomy and its refinement by subsequent research to trace a dynamic interaction between wisdom and law in the Second Temple period. The article ends with critical reflections on the wide-spread model of segmenting ancient Jewish literature and those responsible for it into neat categories such as wisdom and law. It is argued that such a model presupposes a degree of specialization that is not borne out by the range of literature that found its way into the Hebrew Bible or the caves in the vicinity of Khirbet Qumran

Art · Biblical studies · Conversation · Dead Sea Scrolls · Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Jewish studies · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Second Temple period · Theology · Torah · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy

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