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The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research (Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1992), pp. 290-98. 2. Genre and Date of the Temple Scroll 31 E. Tov, 'Deut. 12 and HQTemple LII-LIII: A Contrastive Analysis', #Q15 (1991), pp. 16973. —'The Temple Scroll and Old Testament Textual Criticism', Eretz Israel 16 (1982), pp. 100111 (Hebrew). M. Weinfeld, 'God versus Moses in the Temple Scroll—"I do not speak on my own but on God's authority" (Sifre Deut. sec. 5; John 12, 48f)', RQ 15 (1991-92), pp. 175-80. A. Wilson and L.
This third court is a major innovation of the Temple Scroll; none of the other Israelite Temples in antiquity, real or projected, had more than two courts. The purpose of this innovative third court is in keeping with the zones of holiness which the Scroll is establishing around the Temple; the Outer Court is for ritually pure Israelite women, children and proselytes, and allows them to participate in the public festivals of the Temple (see below), at a suitable remove. As a consequence, the dimensions of the Outer Court are much greater than those of the Inner and Middle Courts.
As was discussed above, 4Q524 probably represents an earlier edition of the Temple Scroll. Thus, it is clear that the Temple plan in the Temple Scroll was not the creation of the author/redactor of HQTemplea, but comes from an earlier source. The source dates at least to the early second century BCE, and may be even earlier. The goal of the plan for the Temple and its courts is to create a compound of concentric zones of holiness, in which the holiness emanating from the Divine Presence in the center, the Temple itself, radiates outward across the entire land of Israel.
