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| Title: Qumran in Relation to the Apocrypha, Rabbinic Judaism, and Nascent Christianity: Impacts on University Teaching of Jewish Civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman Period Secondary Title: Jewish civilization in the Hellenistic-Roman period Pages: 168-180 Type: Book Section Year: 1991 Abstract: Fitzmyer, Joseph A.: "C. opens with a survey of problems facing one who would try to teach a university course on the Dead Sea Scrolls and with a statement concerning the Princeton Dead Sea Scroll Project and its coming publication of 170 texts in three volumes (photographs, texts and translations, and concordance). Next, C. discusses three phases in the modern study of ancient pre-70 Judaism: (I) Pre-Qumran discovery phase (since the Enlightenment): dependence on the Mishnah, Josephus, Philo, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha published by E. Kautzsch or R. H. Charles. (II) After the discovery of Qumran scrolls, use was made of 1 Maccabees, 1QS, 1QH, CD, 1QpHab, this resulting in five major shifts of emphasis: Palestinian Judaism no longer regarded as monolithic; the dates of the emergence of the different Jewish sects or groups studied; recognition that pre-70 Judaism was not in fact bifurcated into Hellenistic and Palestinian; the non-isolated character of pre-70 Jerusalem, contrary to R. Bultmann's opinion; and rabbinic Judaism and nascent Christianity developed out of a complex early Jewish culture in the same time and place. (III) New curricula developed in the last decade: a proper understanding of early Judaism against which both rabbinic Judaism and Christianity must be studied is now available, with the result that honest dialogue can now be undertaken". Keywords: Qumran |