by hadassah | Dec 18, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Pesher The Pesher Pesher interpretations are almost unique to Qumran. Some parallels have been found in New Testament exegesis of the Hebrew Bible; others were found in the aggadic Midrash. Pesher can be found within sectarian compositions such as the Zadokite...
by hadassah | Nov 24, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Dead Sea Scrolls Spotlight: The Temple Scroll, Magen Broshi, Biblical Archaeology Review (33:4) Jul/Aug 2007. The Temple Scroll is the longest Dead Sea Scroll (over 28 feet, preserved almost to its entire length) and one of the most important. It was excavated...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Masada and Its Scrolls, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994. The texts found at Masada provide us with additional information about the state of Judaism on the eve of the revolt and in the early...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Harmonic and Mystical Characteristics in Poetic and Liturgical Writings From Qumran, Bilhah Nitzan, The Jewish Quarterly Review 85,1-2 (1995). I Basic to Jewish thought is the existential separation between God and nature, and hence between God and man- “The...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
The Book of Mysteries, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994. Another set of manuscripts, very similar to the Sapiential Works, have been entitled Mysteries. These documents, sharing many of the...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Mysticism and Magic Jews have always striven to gain greater access to the realm of the divine. When these attempts have an experiential element, they are referred to as mystical. The texts found at Qumran are more descriptive than experiential, yet they laid...
