Dead Sea Scrolls

Qumran scribe, The Great Isaiah Scroll, chapter 53, c. 125 BC · Israel Museum, Jerusalem · Public domainQumran scribe, The Great Isaiah Scroll, chapter 53, c. 125 BC, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Jewish source2nd c. BC–AD 70

In Jewish Roots of Mary

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Manuscripts found near Qumran, the library of a Jewish community of Jesus' time. Pitre lists them among the Jewish sources outside the Bible that he draws on, and notes that the evidence for Mary's vow 'is not hidden in some obscure Dead Sea Scroll' but in Numbers 30.

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Appendix, Jewish Sources Outside the Bible — defined and dated among the seven collections of Jewish sources (pp 17, 168)
Chapter 5 — Pitre remarks that the evidence for vows of abstinence is in the Bible itself, not only in the Scrolls (p 96)

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ArgumentWhat counts as evidence — the Jewish sources outside the Bible and why Pitre uses later textsJewish Roots
(pp 17, 168)

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VerseNumbers 30:13Jewish Roots

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