Showing papers on "Dead Sea Scrolls published in 1977"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the debates over astrology preserved in the Talmud, scan the major relevant sections in the Pseudepigrapha, and review the astrological documents found in Cave 4 near Khirbet Qumran.
Abstract: In a recent publication a scholar suggests that the Talmud preserves teachings only against astrology, and claims that astrology never obtained a foothold within Judaism, remaining only a sectarian phenomenon “at variance with normative Judaism.” The suggestion and claim should not go unchallenged. The present paper looks at the debates over astrology preserved in the Talmud, scans the major relevant sections in the Pseudepigrapha—with an introduction of a Jewish astrological document which should become a new addition to the Pseudepigrapha—reviews the astrological documents found in Cave 4 near Khirbet Qumran, and points again to the abundant evidence of zodiacal wheels and other astrological symbols in early Palestinian synagogues. The necessary breadth precludes exhaustive discussion in any area.
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01 Jan 1977
TL;DR: Burrows was for many years Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale University Divinity School and is widely known as the author of The Dead Sea Scrolls and More Light on the Dead Sea Scroll, and is a contributor to The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Millar Burrows was for many years Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale University Divinity School. He received his M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary, New York, and a PhD. in biblical languages, literature and history from Yale University. He is widely known as the author of The Dead Sea Scrolls and More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls, and is a contributor to The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, published by Abingdon.
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