The Dead Sea Scrolls Another set of manuscripts, very similar to the Sapiential Works, have been entitled Mysteries. These documents, sharing many of the same ideas and language used in the wisdom materials, contain even more sectarian terminology. When read together with the Thanksgiving Hymns, the Mysteries seem more integral to the Qumran sectarian corpus […]
Primary sources 4QMysteries(b), A Preliminary Edition, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Revue de Qumran 16, p. 203-223. Mishnah Hagigah 2-1- Teaching the Secrets of the Torah Jerusalem Talmud Hagigah 2-1 (77a)- Merkavah Speculation Secondary sources The Book of Mysteries, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. Harmonic and Mystical Characteristics in […]
Primary sources The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness I-II- The Thirty-Five Years War Aramaic Apocalypse I-II- The “Son of God” Text (Martinez) Psalms Scroll 22-1-15- Apostrophe to Zion Secondary sources The War Scroll, c. 100 BCE Aramaic Apocalypse, 1st century BCE The Son of God Text, […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls WAR RULE (1QM). Also known as the War Scroll or War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, this scroll was among the major documents discovered in Qumran Cave 1, and was first published by Sukenik (1954–55). The definitive edition in English is that of Yadin (1962). Several […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls In his long-awaited publication of the Temple Scroll, Y. YADIN has called attention to the similarity of a passage at the end of its twenty-ninth column to one in the first column of the 4 Q Florilegium. (1) The latter, particularly due to its singular expression miqdaš ’ādām (line 6), has […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls- the New York University conference in memory of Yigael Yadin (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman), JSOT Press, Sheffield 1990, p.83-96. Scriptural Foundations Yigael Yadin begins his discussion of the laws of purity in the Temple Scroll1 with two citations from the seminal study of […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls The publication of the Temple Scroll by the late Professor Yigael Yadin1 was expected to resolve many of the longstanding issues pertaining to the Dead Sea corpus as a whole and its place in the history of Judaism in the Second Commonwealth period. Despite the truly momentous nature of this discovery, […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeology and History in the Dead Sea Scrolls- the New York University conference in memory of Yigael Yadin (ed. Lawrence H. Schiffman), JSOT Press, Sheffield 1990, p.135-156. The appearance of Professor Yigael Yadin’s thorough editions of the Temple Scroll, in Hebrew and in English,1 has presented scholars dealing with this text […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls 1. GENERAL REMARKS—THE BEGINNINGS OF MONTHS After enumerating the commands on the continual burnt offering (Col. XIII-10-17) and the Sabbath burnt offering (from Col. XIII-17 to the top of Col. XIV), the author of the scroll discusses the burnt offerings for the beginnings of months (the line preceding Col. XIV-1), The […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls Andrews University Seminary Studies 41,1 (2003) p.13-29. Introduction- The Biblical Command An apparent parallel to the command to exterminate Amalek is the command given by Moses in his farewell to the Israelites before his death (Deut 7-1–2) to exterminate totally the seven nations of Canaan.1 Moses’ command clearly implies that this […]