Among
the manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are numerous fragments of
liturgical texts that shed light on the ritual life of Jews at the turn
of the common era. This inaugural volume in the landmark Eerdmans
Commentaries on the Dead Sea Scrolls series explores these important
liturgical documents in depth.Beginning with a general introduction to
the Qumran library and Jewish liturgical traditions, James Davila
situates the liturgical texts found at Qumran in their historical
context in Second Temple Judaism. He then offers a reliable translation
of these texts, including notes on the original Hebrew, and provides
detailed line-by-line exegesis of each document. Throughout his
commentary Davila shows how the Qumran liturgical texts draw on and
develop traditions from the Hebrew Bible, and he explores their
significance as background to the Jewish liturgy, Jewish mysticism, and
Christian origins.
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