The Preamble to the Damascus Document: A Composite Edition of 4Q266-4Q268

The three manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls contain a preamble absent in Schecter's 19101 edition of the Genizah version (CD). The question arises what is new in the Dead Sea Scroll version which is in the Genizah version. Does the new material merely confirm what has been conventionally acc...

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Autor principal: Wacholder, Ben Zion 1921-2011 (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
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Publicado: HUC 1998
En: Hebrew Union College annual
Año: 1998, Volumen: 69, Páginas: 31-47
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:No electrónico
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Sumario:The three manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls contain a preamble absent in Schecter's 19101 edition of the Genizah version (CD). The question arises what is new in the Dead Sea Scroll version which is in the Genizah version. Does the new material merely confirm what has been conventionally accepted or do they present a new vision of the Damascus Document? This publication argues for the latter. It differs from previous editions in four respects. It presents a text of the beginning of the Damascus Document that systematically synthesizes the evidence from the three manuscripts found in Qumran. It reconstructs the material in order to make what is highly fragmentary intelligible. It reveals in the beginning of the work the central idea of the composition, namely that it links itself to the Book of Jubilees. It presents an English translation transforming this classical work from a historical composition to an eschatological treatise for the end of days.
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual