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Sacrificial Cult at Qumran? An Evaluation of the Evidence in the Context of Other Alternate Jewish Practices in the Late Second Temple Period

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Sacrificial Cult at Qumran? An Evaluation of the Evidence in the Context of Other Alternate Jewish Practices in the Late Second Temple Period

[Thesis]

Epley, Claudia Elizabeth

Haggis, Donald C.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2020

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M.A.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2020

This thesis reexamines the evidence for Jewish sacrificial cult at the site of Khirbet Qumran, the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in the first centuries BCE and CE. The interpretation of the animal remains discovered at the site during the excavations conducted by Roland de Vaux and subsequent projects has long been that these bones are refuse from the "pure" meals eaten by the sect, as documented in various documents among the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, recent scholarship has revisited the possibility that the sect residing at Qumran conducted their own animal sacrifices separate from the Jerusalem temple. This thesis argues for the likelihood of a sacrificial cult at Qumran as evidenced by the animal remains, comparable sacrificial practices throughout the Mediterranean, contemporary literary works, and the existence of the Jewish temple at Leontopolis in lower Egypt that existed at the same time that the sect resided at Qumran.

Archaeology

Classical studies

Judaic studies

Epley, Claudia Elizabeth

Haggis, Donald C.

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[Thesis]

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