Author: Philip R. DaviesPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category : Qumran community
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
IQM, the War Scroll from Qumran
Author: Philip R. DaviesPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN:
Category : Qumran community
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
IQM, the War Scroll from Qumran
Author: Philip R. DaviesThe War Scroll; the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness; History, Symbols, Texts, and Commentary
Author: Joseph LumpkinPublisher: Fifth Estate Publishing
ISBN: 9781936533480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Following in the apocalyptic visions of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation, The War Scroll reveals the conflict between good and evil in the final days of mankind. Popularly known as "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness," the War Scroll is one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947 and holds the Qumran library designator of "1QM," meaning it was produced from the dig of cave 1. The War Scroll is a very important piece of literature in our understanding of the concepts of divine justice and retribution held by the Jewish community of the Essenes and the Qumran Community in the time of Jewish persecution by Rome. The scroll reflects a belief that in the end times evil would be eradicated by the Power of God and his Sons of Light. The Qumran community saw itself as a righteous light in the world, solidly on the side of good. As God's army, they would fight evil in the world, and with God's help, through his agent, Michael the Archangel, they would win the battle against the Sons of Darkness and bring back righteousness and peace. The text is replete with parallel biblical and apocryphal verses, commentary, and references to numerical symbolism, all intended to lead the reader into an appreciation and understanding of the text.
1 QM (Qumran), the war scroll from Qumran
Author: Philip R. DaviesThe Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Author: Armin LangePublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647535559
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of the Hebrew Bible were written. Students of the Hebrew Bible found the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore mostly of interest for the textual and interpretative histories of these books. The present collection confirms the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for both areas, by showing that they have revolutionized our understanding of how the text of the biblical books developed and how they were interpreted. Beyond the textual and interpretative histories, though, many texts attested in the Qumran library illuminate the time in which the later books of the Hebrew Bible were composed and reworked as well as Jewish life and law in the time when the canon of the Hebrew Bible developed. This volume gives important examples as to how the early texts attested in the Dead Sea Scrolls help to better understand individual biblical books and as to how the later texts among them illustrate Jewish life and law when the canon of the Hebrew Bible evolved. In order to find an adequate expertise for the seminar »The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hebrew Bible«, the editors invited both junior and senior specialists in the fields of Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinics to Rome.
The War Texts
Author: Jean DuhaimePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567306658
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The War Texts is the name given to a small group of Dead Sea Scrolls that depict the preparation for and the various phases of the eschatological battle between the 'Sons of Light' and the 'Sons of Darkness'. Jean Duhaime briefly surveys the history of these texts from their initial discovery to their official publication. He describes the different scrolls and gives details of their contents and their relationships to one another. Duhaime summarizes the various reasons supporting a dating of this composition to the Hellenistic or Roman period and provides an example of the use of the Bible in the War Texts. The contributors to the Companion to the Qumran Scrolls series take account of all relevant and recently published texts and provide extensive bibliographies. The books in the series are authoritatively written in accessible language and are ideal for students and non-specialist scholars. Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, 6
Studies in the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and the Septuagint
Author: James C. VanderKamPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047417984
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
With contributions by many of his colleagues and former students, this volume pays homage to Eugene Ulrich, Chief Editor of the Cave 4 Biblical Scrolls and a foremost expert on the Biblical Scrolls, the Canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and the Septuagint. In line with Professor Ulrich’s areas of scholarship and interest, the almost 30 essays are grouped in three main sections: The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament (including the Biblical Scrolls from the Judaean Desert); Qumran and the Non-Biblical Scrolls from the Judaean Desert; and the Septuagint and Other Ancient Versions. The volume includes a tribute to Eugene Ulrich and ends with a cumulative bibliography and several useful indices.
The War Scroll from Qumran caves 1 and 4
Author: Martin G. AbeggThe Qumran War Scroll and the Date of Its Composition
Author: Moses Hirsch SegalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Wealth in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the Qumran Community
Author: Catherine MurphyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047400658
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
This volume is concerned with exploring sectarian attitudes toward wealth and the economic practices that gave rise to and issued from those attitudes. An introductory chapter establishes the state of the question. Three subsequent chapters focus on major sectarian texts: the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community, and 4QInstruction A. Other sectarian and non-sectarian texts that mention wealth are discussed in a fifth chapter, while archaeological evidence from the Qumran region and contemporary documentary texts are introduced in chapters seven and eight. Finally, ancient secondary testimony on Essene economic practices is discussed. The book breaks new ground in arguing for several biblical rationales for the practice of shared wealth. Its integration of archaeological and documentary evidence sheds surprising new light on the economic organization of the Qumran community.