by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Messianism Postbiblical Judaism in all its forms has a belief in the messianic idea. This idea generally involves the coming of a redeemer, a descendant of King David, who will make sweeping changes in the world, including peace, prosperity and the end of...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
War Rule (1QM). Reprinted with permission from Philip R. Davies, Anchor Bible Dictionary (ed. David Noel Freedman), Doubleday, New York 1992. WAR RULE (1QM). Also known as the War Scroll or War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, this scroll was...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
Notes: The Three Temples of 4 Q Florilegium, Daniel R. Schwartz, Revue de Qumran 37 (1979). 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...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
The Scriptural Foundations and Deviations in the Laws of Purity of the Temple Scroll, Jacob Milgrom. 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...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
The King, His Guard, and the Royal Council in the Temple Scroll, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 54 (1987). The publication of the Temple Scroll by the late Professor Yigael Yadin1 was expected to resolve many of...
by hadassah | Apr 14, 2008 | Sectarian Literature
The Impurity of the Dead in the Temple Scroll, Lawrence H. Schiffman. 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...
