LAW AT QUMRAN A CRITICAL REACTION TO LAWRENCE H. SCHIFFMAN, SECTARIAN SECTARIAN LAW IN THE DEAD SEA SEA SCROLLS: COURTS, TESTIMONY, AND THE PENAL CODE Though this work has already been reviewed by G. W. Buchanan in Revue de Qumrân (Vol. XI, no. 44, pp. 593-594), the problems investigated are sufficiently complex so that further discussion may well serve to elucidate some details. This book, Number 33 in the Brown Judaic Studies series, is Professor Schiffman's second volume on Qumran Law. His first, The The Halakhah at Qumran, (1) a revision of his dissertation, was published by Brill in the series edited by Professor Neusner, Studies Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity, Number 16. In that book, SchiffmanSchiffman gave a general introduction to Qumran legal methodo logy and terminology, and then focused on the Sabbath law. The present work, as its title indicates, investigates the Qumran legal system. Though much of it deals with questions we today would categorize as civil law — number and qualification of judges, admissibility of witnesses, restoration of stolen property — a quick glance through the volume indicates that Schiffman has also included discussions of the divine name at Qumran, ritual impurity, and the communal meal. This itself strengthens Schiffman's remarks (p. 3) concerning the interrelatedness of the different aspects of Jewish life and tradition, as found in the literature of the Qumran sect. Though the texts discovered at Qumran have generated hundreds of studies, when one turns to the specific field of Qumran Law, the situation is drastically different. I know of only two scholars (1) Leiden, 1975.