...This chapter examines literature discovered at Qumran and related literature, including the Temple Scroll, with an eye toward describing more fully the anti-temple polemics articulated. It identifies sources making the following claims about the Jerusalem temple: that it is ritually defiled...

... of the Dead Sea Scrolls, primary material from the period of the Second Temple was made available. Recognition of the centrality of the law to the life and consciousness of the Qumran sectarians came with the publication of the Temple Scroll in 1977. Since that time, a goodly number of halakhic compositions...

...In the wake of the Maccabean revolt, the literature from the land of Israel takes a halakic turn, which is evident in Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. While the Law was the basis of common Judaism, it was also the basis of sectarian division. 1 Maccabees Josephus Otto Eckart...

... examples of Rewritten Scripture at Qumran include the Book of Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, the Temple Scroll, and perhaps the Reworked Pentateuch manuscripts. This article begins by briefly describing the four Qumran texts. Then, it takes up the question of how ‘Rewritten Scripture’ might best...

... of the works of ‘rewritten Scripture’, such as Jubilees, 1 Enoch, and Temple Scroll, tend to tell events from a ‘personal’ point of view, namely from a first-person perspective. An overview of all Inventory points that document literary relationships between biblical and non-biblical texts is presented...

...This section of the book illustrates how the Inventory applies to a specific text in the form of a sample profile of an important work, in this case the Temple Scroll. This profile is drawn from a public, online database accompanying the book (literarydatase.humanities.manchester.ac.uk). Brin G...

... such cases of documented growth of ancient texts far removed from each other both chronologically and geographically: the Gilgamesh Epic and Temple Scroll. Both cases display the sort of “memory variants” discussed in the previous chapter along with a range of other sorts of textual revision, including...

... the original size of any given composition or the right order of its remaining fragments. This chapter describes the writing style of two compositions empirically. These two main literary genres are represented by the Temple Scroll, on the one hand, and by the legal part of the Damascus Document, on the other...