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INTRODUCTION

This issue is devoted to questions surrounding the authorization of

authoritative literature, biblical interpretation, and de nitive

halakhah

for the Qumran community. The topic of authority at Qumran leads in a

variety of directions and is currently attracting much attention, as the

essays in this issue attest. By raising questions about what it meant

to constitute Scripture in the second temple period, Eugene UlrichÕs essay

serves as an introduction to the topic. The centrality of authoritative

Scripture within the sectÕs self-understanding is presupposed in all of

the subsequent essays, which explore strategies employed by the sect

to authorize legal, liturgical and interpretive innovations. Attention is

also paid to ways in which interpretation at Qumran was shaped by

Torah study and exegetical practice, and to similarities and dissim-

ilarities with rabbinic traditions.

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