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Book Reviews / Dead Sea Discoveries 17 (2010) 115–139 131 From Qumran to the Yah ̣ ad: A New Paradigm of Textual Development for the Com- munity Rule . By Alison Schofield. STDJ 77. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Pp. xviii + 366. Hardcover. € 119.00/US$ 189.00. ISBN 9789004170070. Alison Schofield’s Notre Dame dissertation is an important contribution to the study of the Community Rule . She proposes a model that “reads the S versions as sharing a common core of material but reconstructs them as primarily diverging traditions without the unwarranted assumption that a limited group of scribes at Qumran developed all S traditions” (7). After a brief introduction, the study is divided into five chapters. The first chapter considers recent work on the Yah ̣ ad and the Serekh . She demurs from using the term sect, on the grounds that there was no normative Judaism in the Second temple period. The usual “sectarian” view of the move- ment has been exaggerated by the tendency to identify it with the community at Qumran. The simple identification of the Yah ̣ ad with the Qumran community has already been challenged by the reviewer, and also by Eyal Regev and
Dead Sea Discoveries – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2010
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