In arguing that the Qumran sectarians were Sadducees, at least in their origins, Lawrence Schiffman relies on a comparison of four laws discussed both in a Qumran sectarian documents known as MMT and in a rabbinic text from about 200 C.E. called the Mishnah. The passage in the Mishnah (Yadayim 4.6–7) records a dispute … Continue reading Tracking The Law in The Mishnah and in a Qumran Text