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Dualism of Dead Sea Scroll Sect Rejected by Hazal by DBL

Dualism by DSS Rejected by Rabbinic Sages by DBL
Members of the DSS express in their scrolls a strong dualism. They viewed the world as in conflict between the "sons of light" vs. "the sons of darkness." Some commentators view their view of the sons of darkness with the Romans and their occupation of Palestine which favored at time for instance when Alexander Janneus was King, the alliance with the Sadducees, until his wife Shalom Zion, whose brother was the av bet din of the Sanhedrin Shimon ben Shetach reinstated the Pharisees. This study abstracted from a longer footnoted paper, written for Dead Sea Scroll scholar Dr. Joseph M. Baumgarten, examines evidence of censorship of Dualism as found in the mishnah, gemarah, Halakhic Midrashim including Mekilta, Sifrei, and Sifra, as well as Pesikta Rabbatai, the Tefillot (liturgy), and Rav Sadia Gaon's Sefer Emunot ve-Deot. It draws on secondary sources from the Wissenschaft des Judentums Beweigung including Rabbi Isaac Heinemann's Der Juedische Gottesdienst in der Talmud, and Elbogen's 1913 Der juedische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung translated into Hebrew in 1972 as Hatefilah beyisrael behitpathutah hahistorit.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Significance of Dead Sea Scrolls

This is an introductory LibGuide for researching the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s constitutes one of the most significant finds in the history of Biblical textual analysis. This extensive scroll library dates to late in the period of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in the year 68 C. E. Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest known extant biblical manuscript was the Aleppo Codex, written almost a millennium later in the 10th century. Maimonides (1135-1204) writes that the Codex, now located in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, was the most authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible in his time.

For more on, please read this article on the significance of the DSS library in the Touro College Library Newsletter.

Intro with Link to article on Dead Sea Scroll Library

Intro with link to TC. Library Newsletter article on DSS library

AJL Cleveland Conference paper on the Dead Sea Scrolls

AJL Cleveland Conference paper on DSS