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A roadmap to the Temple Scroll, one of the manuscripts from Qumran.

Provides an introduction to 8 sectarian manuscripts from among the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls that can loosely be called the "Exegetical Texts". This book examines their contents, background, genre, and significance and provides a history of the relevant research. It constitutes a diverse strand of sectarian compositions among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology. This book offers an introduction and an examination of individual texts for the contribution to the subject of purity, with information on the impurities discussed in the Scrolls: death, leprosy, bodily discharges and outsiders.

The biblical commentaries from Qumran (the Pesharim) are well known, but the voluminous scholarship can appear daunting and the exegesis challenging. In this user-friendly textbook, the reader is introduced to basic and less obvious features of Qumran exegeses.