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The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise Contents: ● Preface ● The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered ● Abbreviations, Symbols and Ciphers ● Introduction 1. Messianic And Visionary Recitals ● 1. The Messiah of Heaven and Earth (4Q521) ● 2. The Messianic Leader (Nasi-4Q285) ● 3. The Servants of Darkness (4Q471) ● 4. The Birth of Noah (4Q 534-536) ● 5. The Words of Michael (4Q529) ● 6. The New Jerusalem (4Q554) ● 7. The Tree of Evil (A Fragmentary Apocalypse-4Q458) 2. Prophets And Pseudo-Prophets ● 8. The Angels of Mastemoth and the Rule of Belial (4Q390) ● 9. Pseudo-Jeremiah (4Q385) ● 10. Second Ezekiel (4Q385-389) ● 11. Pseudo-Daniel (4Q243-245) ● 12. The Son of God (4Q246) ● 13. Vision of the Four Kingdoms (4Q547) 3. Biblical Interpretation ● 14. A Genesis Florilegium (4Q252) ● 15. Joshua Apocryphon (4Q522) ● 16. A Biblical Chronology (4Q559) ● 17. Hur and Miriam (4Q544) ● 18. Enochic Book of Giants (4Q532) ● 19. Pseudo-jubilees (4Q227) ● 20. Aramaic Tobit (4Q196) ● 21. Stories from the Persian Court (4Q550) 4. Calendrical Texts And Priestly Courses ● 22. Priestly Courses I (4Q3 2 1) ● 23. Priestly Courses II(4Q32 0) ● 24. Priestly Courses III-Aemilius Kills (4Q323-324A-B) ● 25. Priestly Courses IV (4Q325) ● 26. Heavenly Concordances (Otot-4Q319A) 5. Testaments And Admonitions ● 27. Aramaic Testament of Levi (4Q2 13 -214) ● 28. A Firm Foundation (Aaron A-4Q541) ● 29. Testament of Kohath (4Q 542) ● 30. Testament of Amram (4Q543,545-548) ● 31. Testament of Naphtali (4Q2 15) ● 32. Admonitions to the Sons of Dawn (4Q298) ● 33. The Sons of Righteousness (Proverbs-4Q424) ● 34. The Demons of Death (Beatitudes-4Q525) 6. Works Reckoned As Righteousness- Legal Texts (P180) ● 35. The First Letter on Works Reckoned as Righteousness (4Q394-398) ● 36. The Second Letter on Works Reckoned as Righteousness (4Q397 - 399) ● 37. A Pleasing Fragrance (Halakhah A-4Q251) ● 38. Mourning, Seminal Emissions, etc. (Purity Laws Type A-4Q274) ● 39. Laws of the Red Heifer (Purity Laws Type B-4Q276-277) ● 40. The Foundations of Righteousness (The End of the Damascus Document: An Excommunication Text-4Q266) 7. Hymns And Mysteries ● 41. The Chariots of Glory (4Q2 8 6-2 87) ● 42. Baptismal Hymn (4Q414) ● 43. Hymns of the Poor (4Q434,436) ● 44. The Children of Salvation (Yesha') and The Mystery of Existence (4Q416, 418) 8. Divination, Magic And Miscellaneous ● 45. Brontologion (4Q318) ● 46. A Physiognomic Text (4Q561) ● 47. An Amulet Formula Against Evil Spirits (4Q 560) ● 48. The Era of Light is Coming (4Q462) ● 49. He Loved His Bodily Emissions (A Record of Sectarian Discipline-4Q477) ● 50. Paean for King Jonathan (Alexander Jannaeus-4Q448) ● Index (Removed) ● Plates Pictures of The Scrolls themselves; and where they were found Scan / Edit Notes Versions available and duly posted: Format: v1.0 (Text) Format: v1.0 (PDB - open format) Format: v1.5 (HTML) Format: v1.5 (PDF - no security) Format: v1.5 (PRC - for MobiPocket Reader - pictures included) Genera: Dead Sea Scrolls (Extra Biblical Works) Extra's: Pictures Included (for all versions) Copyright: 1993 First Scanned: 2002 Posted to: alt.binaries.e-book Note: 1. The Html, Text and Pdb versions are bundled together in one zip file. 2. The Pdf and Prc files are sent as single zips (and naturally don't have the file structure below) ~~~~ Structure: (Folder and Sub Folders) {Main Folder} - HTML Files | |- {Nav} - Navigation Files | |- {PDB} | |- {Pic} - Graphic files | |- {Text} - Text File -Salmun The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered Preface Robert Eisenman is Professor of Middle East Religions and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. He has published several books on the Scrolls, including Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran: A New Hypothesis of Qumran Origins and James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher, and he is a major contributor to a Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Michael Wise is an Assistant Professor of Aramaic - the language of Jesus - in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Chicago. He is the author of A Critical Study of the Temple Scroll from Qumran Cave Eleven and has written numerous articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls which have appeared in journals such as the Revue de Qumran, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Vetus Testamentum. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years Robert H. Eisenman and Michael Wise Abbreviations, Symbols and Ciphers Beyer, Texte - K. Beyer, Die aramäischen Texte vom Toten Meer (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1984) DJD - Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (of Jordan ) DSSIP - S. A. Reed, Dead Sea Scroll Inventory Project: Lists of Documents, Photographs and Museum Plates (Claremont: Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, 1991 -) ER - R. H. Eisenman and J. M. Robinson, A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2 Volumes (Washington, D.C: 1991) Milik, Books - J. T. Milik, The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976) Milik, MS - J. T. Milik, 'Milki-sedeq et Milki-resha dans les anciens écrits juifs et chrétiens,' Journal of Jewish Studies 23 (1972) 95-144. Milik, Years - J. T. Milik, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea (London: SCM, 1959) PAM - Palestine Archaeological Museum (designation used for accession numbers of photographs of Scrolls) 4Q - Qumran Cave Four. Texts are then numbered, e.g., 4Q390 = manuscript number 390 found in Cave Four [ ] - Missing letters or words vacat - Uninscribed leather Ancient scribal erasure or modern editor's deletion < > - Supralinear text or modern editor's addition III - Ancient ciphers used in some texts for digits 1 -9 -/ - Ancient cipher used in some texts for the number '10' 3 - Ancient cipher used in some texts for the number '20' ... - Traces of ink visible, but letters cannot be read -// - Ancient cipher used in some texts for the number '100' Introduction Why should anyone be interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why are they important? We trust that the present volume, which presents fifty texts from the previously unpublished corpus, will help answer these questions. The story of the discovery of the Scrolls in caves along the shores of the Dead Sea in the late forties and early fifties is well known. The first cave was discovered, as the story goes, by Bedouin boys in 1947. Most familiar works in Qumran research come from this cave - Qumran, the Arabic term for the locale in which the Scrolls were found, being used by scholars as shorthand to refer to the Scrolls. Discoveries from other caves are less well known, but equally important. For instance, Cave 3 was discovered in 1952. It contained a Copper Scroll, a list apparently of hiding places of Temple treasure. The problem has always been to fit this Copper Scroll into its proper historical setting. The present work should help in resolving this and other similar questions. The most important cave for our purposes was Cave 4 discovered in 1954. Since it was discovered after the partition of Palestine, its contents went into the Jordanian-controlled Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem; while the contents of Cave 1 had previously gone into an Israeli-controlled museum in West Jerusalem, the Israel Museum. Scholars refer to these manuscript-bearing caves according to the chronological order in which they were discovered: e.g. 1Q = Cave 1, 2Q = Cave 2, 3 Q = Cave 3, and so on. The seemingly esoteric code designating manuscripts and fragments, therefore, works as follows: 1QS = the Community Rule from Cave 1; 4QD = the Damascus Document from Cave 4, as opposed, for instance, to CD, the recensions of the same document discovered at the end of the last century in the repository known as the Cairo Genizah. The discovery of this obviously ancient document with Judaeo-Christian overtones among medieval materials puzzled observers at the time. Later, fragments of it were found among materials from Cave 4, but researchers continued using the Cairo Genizah versions because the Qumran fragments were never published. We now present pictures of the last column of this document (plates 19 and 20) in this work, and it figured prominently in events leading up to the final publication of the unpublished plates. The struggle for access to the materials in Cave 4 was long and arduous, sometimes even bitter. An International Team of editors had been set up by the Jordanian Government to control the process. The problems with this team are public knowledge. To put them in a nutshell: in the first place the team was hardly international, secondly it did not work well as a team, and thirdly it dragged out the editing process interminably. In 198 5 -8 6, Professor Robert Eisenman, co-editor of this volume, was in Jerusalem as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the William F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research - the 'American School' where the Scrolls from Cave 1 were originally brought for inspection in 1947. The subject of his research was the relationship of the Community at Qumran to the Jerusalem Church. This last is also referred to as the Jerusalem Community of James the just, called in sources 'the brother of Jesus' - whatever may be meant by this designation. Prior recipients of this award were mostly field archaeologists, but a few were translators, including some from the International Team. Professor Eisenman was the first historian as such to be so appointed. Frustratingly, he found there was little he could do in Jerusalem. Where access to the Scrolls themselves was concerned, he was given the run-around, by now familiar to those who follow the Scrolls' saga, and shunted back and forth between the Israel Department of Antiquities, now housed at the Rockefeller Museum, and the Ecole Biblique or 'French School' down the street from the American School.
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