by hadassah | Sep 9, 2015 | Sectarian Literature
4QMysteries(b), A Preliminary Edition, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Revue de Qumran 16, p. 203-223. The texts entitled “Mysteries” consist of four manuscripts. Three of these, 1Q27, 4Q299 (4QMysta), and 4Q300 (4QMystb) can definitely be shown to be one and the same...
by hadassah | Sep 9, 2015 | Sectarian Literature
The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness I-II – The Thirty-Five Years War COL I(1) For the In[structor, the Rule of] the War. The first attack of the Sons of Light shall be undertaken against the forces of the Sons of...
by hadassah | Sep 9, 2015 | Sectarian Literature
Psalms Scroll 22-1-15- Apostrophe to Zion Translation by Geza Vermes (4QPSf and 11QPsa). I will remember you, O Zion, for a blessing; with all my might I love you; your memory is to be blessed for ever. Your hope is great, O Zion. Peace and your awaited...
by hadassah | Jan 29, 2009 | Sectarian Literature
Ideology The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal the ideology of the Qumran sect and of other Jews in the Second Temple period, especially how Jews interacted with non-Jews, their view that Jerusalem was the religious epicenter of the Jewish world and how they saw the role...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Sectarian Literature
Is the Temple Scroll a Sixth Book of the Torah—Lost for 2,500 Years? Hartmut Stegemann, Biblical Archaeology Review (13:6) Nov/Dec 1987. The Temple Scroll is the longest and, in my view, clearly the most important of the preserved Dead Sea Scrolls. It was...
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Sectarian Literature
Temple Scroll, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. TEMPLE SCROLL. A scroll emanating from Qumran Cave 11 (hence its designation 11QTemple; Heb Megillat Hammiqdaš) which sets forth the...
