Download or read book The Courtyards of the House of the Lord written by Lawrence Harvey Schiffman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already before its publication, it was clear that the "Temple Scroll" represented a major contribution to the history of Jewish law in Late Antiquity. The present volume brings together the authora (TM)s studies on this important scroll. He has sought to uncover the hermeneutics of the Zadokite/Sadducean legal system and to compare and contrast it with other texts of its own type as well as with those in rabbinic literature preserving the Pharisaic-rabbinic approach.