ביכורים וירחים: חלוקה לשונית ונושאית של לוחות המועדים מקומראן: [מתוך המדור: בין פרשנות מקרא להלכה קדומה]

One of the most distinctive features of the Qumran corpus is the presence of manuscripts devoted to calendrical reckoning and to the enumeration of key events. The majority of these texts presuppose the 364-day year, a calendrical scheme unique within Second Temple Judaism and frequently regarded as a central marker of sectarian identity. Yet despite their common framework,the calendrical texts are far from uniform. They display significant diversity in both form and content, especially within the calendrical scrolls that contain lists of festivals. Such diversity raises important questions not on ly about the coherence of the calendrical tradition preserved at Qumran, but also about the sectarian or social identity of the circles that transmitted these writings. This article revisits these questions through a detailed examination of the calendrical scrolls and argues that the material maybe classified into two clusters, distinguished above all by the presence or absence of the festivals of first fruits.