The Courtyards of the House of the Lord: Studies on the Temple Scroll Book

Introduction The Enigma of the Temple Scroll

Pt. 1 The Temple Scroll

Ch. 1 The Law of the Temple Scroll and its Provenance 3

Ch. 2 The Theology of the Temple Scroll 19

Ch. 3 The Temple Scroll and the Nature of its Law: The Status of the Question 33

Ch. 4 'Ir Ha-Miqdash and its Meaning in the Temple Scroll and Other Qumran Texts 53

Ch. 5 The Architectural Vocabulary of the Copper Scroll and the Temple Scroll 67

Pt. 2 The Temple Scroll and other Jewish Writings

Ch. 6 The Septuagint and the Temple Scroll: Shared "Halakhic" Variants 85

Ch. 7 The Sacrificial System of the Temple Scroll and the Book of Jubilees 99

Ch. 8 Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah and the Temple Scroll 123

Ch. 9 The Relationship of the Zadokite Fragments to the Temple Scroll 149

Ch. 10 The Temple Scroll and the Halakhic Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple Period 163

Ch. 11 Descriptions of the Jerusalem Temple in Josephus and the Temple Scroll 175

Ch. 12 The Prohibition of Judicial Corruption in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus and Talmudic Law 189

Pt. 3 The Temple

Ch. 13 Architecture and Law: The Temple and its Courtyards in the Temple Scroll 215

Ch. 14 The Construction of the Temple according to the Temple Scroll 233

Ch. 15 The Furnishings of the Temple according to the Temple Scroll 253

Ch. 16 The House of the Laver in the Temple Scroll 269

Ch. 17 Sacred Space: The Land of Israel in the Temple Scroll 281

Pt. 4 Sacrifices

Ch. 18 Sacral and Non-Sacral Slaughter according to the Temple Scroll 297

Ch. 19 The Milluim Ceremony in the Temple Scroll 315

Ch. 20 The Case of the Day of Atonement Ritual 333

Ch. 21 Some Laws Pertaining to Animals in Temple Scroll, Column 52341

Ch. 22 'Ola and hatta't in the Temple Scroll 353

Ch. 23 Shelamim Sacrifices in the Temple Scroll 365

Pt. 5 Purity Regulations

Ch. 24 Exclusion from the Sanctuary and the City of the Sanctuary in the Temple Scroll 381

Ch. 25 The Impurity of the Dead in the Temple Scroll 403

Ch. 26 Pharisaic and Sadducean Halakhah in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of Tevul Yom 425

Pt. 6 Other Halakhot

Ch. 27 The Deuteronomic Paraphrase of the Temple Scroll 443

Ch. 28 Laws concerning Idolatry in the Temple Scroll 471

Ch. 29 The King, his Guard, and the Royal Council in the Temple Scroll 487

Ch. 30 Laws of War in the Temple Scroll 505

Ch. 31 Laws Pertaining to Women in the Temple Scroll 519

Ch. 32 Priestly and Levitical Gifts in the Temple Scroll 541

Ch. 33 The Law of Vows and Oaths (Num 30, 3-16) in the Zadokite Fragments and the Temple Scroll 557

Subject Index 575

Passage Index 580

A Hebrew Scriptures 580

B Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 587

C Dead Sea Scrolls 588

D Classical Authors 597

E New Testament Scriptures 598

F Rabbinic Literature 598

G Maimonides 604

Modern Authors Index 605