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This volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. An introductory chapter establishes the state of the question. Three subsequent chapters focus on major sectarian texts: the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community, and 4QInstruction A. Other sectarian and non-sectarian texts that mention wealth are discussed in a fifth chapter, while archaeological evidence from the Qumran region and contemporary documentary texts are introduced in chapters seven and eight. Finally, ancient secondary testimony on Essene economic practices is discussed. The book argues for several biblical rationales for the practice of shared wealth. Its integration of archaeological and documentary evidence sheds surprising new light on the economic organization of the Qumran community.

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'...a compelling portrait of the economic practices of the Qumran community...' Matthew Goff, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2003.

' a compelling portrait of the economic practices of the Qumran community ' Matthew Goff, Journal of Biblical Literature , 2003.

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Catherine M. Murphy, Ph.D. (1999) in New Testament, University of Notre Dame, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University in California. She has published or co-published three manuscripts in the DJD series.

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