This workshop will show how the Dead Sea Scrolls help fill in our knowledge of Jewish law and observance in the Second Temple period. Included in these fascinating gleanings are confirmation of specific Talmudic reports about the major legal debates of those days and the dating of various sections of Talmudic literature. The archaeological discoveries at Qumran also provide us with our earliest examples of rituals such as Tefilin and Mikvahs.
