Stringency in Qumran?

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" Stringency in Qumran? "
Paul Heger

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075058
Doc. No	:	LA118687
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157006311X565091‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Paul Heger
Title & Author	:	Stringency in Qumran? [Article]\ Paul Heger
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2011
Volume/ Issue Number	:	42/2
Page No	:	188–217
Abstract	:	Some scholars allege a stringent ideology behind the severe Qumranic halakhot in contrast to putative leniencies in parallel rabbinic rulings. Vered Noam contends that the rabbinic propensity for leniency and innovativeness, versus the opposite Qumranic approach are the source of their disputes. Thus, Qumranic strictness is not “objective” but relative to the lenient rabbinic law. This paper critically scrutinizes Noam’s thesis, and will posit that the halakhot of Qumran are founded on a literal adherence to Scripture versus rabbinic pragmatism. The study discusses Noam’s cited examples, offering contrasting explanations. It deliberates about the difference between disputes concerning interpretations and physical facts, the rationales behind the various classifications, and the relationship between the degrees of holiness and the degrees of impurity. Some scholars allege a stringent ideology behind the severe Qumranic halakhot in contrast to putative leniencies in parallel rabbinic rulings. Vered Noam contends that the rabbinic propensity for leniency and innovativeness, versus the opposite Qumranic approach are the source of their disputes. Thus, Qumranic strictness is not “objective” but relative to the lenient rabbinic law. This paper critically scrutinizes Noam’s thesis, and will posit that the halakhot of Qumran are founded on a literal adherence to Scripture versus rabbinic pragmatism. The study discusses Noam’s cited examples, offering contrasting explanations. It deliberates about the difference between disputes concerning interpretations and physical facts, the rationales behind the various classifications, and the relationship between the degrees of holiness and the degrees of impurity.
Descriptor	:	banishment
Descriptor	:	leniency
Descriptor	:	Qumran
Descriptor	:	rabbinic
Descriptor	:	stringency
Descriptor	:	visual repulsiveness
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157006311X565091‬