Marriage and Sexual Intercourse
in Deuteronomy and the Dead Sea Scrolls

What are the premises underlying Deuteronomy 22:13-29? What does the biblical law promote, condone or condemn in this set of laws regarding pre-marital sex and ex-marital sex? How were these laws reworked in the Damascus Document and in the Temple Scroll, and what can these reworking teach us of the relation between these two documents found in Qumran?

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