The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean State (Studies in the by Hanan Eshel, David Louvish, Aryeh Amihay

By Hanan Eshel, David Louvish, Aryeh Amihay

The useless Sea Scrolls and the Hasmonean nation is the 1st booklet committed exclusively to the query of ways we will research political historical past from the Qumran scrolls. This English variation of Hanan Eshels 2004 Hebrew book updates that previous paintings with newer scholarship, now additionally together with English-language assets.

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19 Apart from Flussers reconstruction of the Hebrew text, we read "For the M[aster. The Rule] of War" in line 1, based on the letters lamed and mem legible at the top of the scroll, read by neither Yadin nor Flusser. Thanks are due to Prof. Frank Cross for suggesting this reconstruction. The English translation is largely based on Geza Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1998) 163, with minor emendations. " Dimant questioned Flussers disregard of the similarity between the account at the beginning of the War Scroll and the historical events, that is, his failure to identify "the king of the Kittim" with Antiochus IV.

Menachem Kister, however, rejects the commonly held view, claiming that the ram should be identified with a leader of the Qumran community; see M. Kister, "Concerning the History of the Essenes," Tarbiz 56 (1987) 1-18 (Hebrew). For the moment, he is the only dissenter. While numerous fragments of Enoch were found at Qumran, no fragments of the Animal Apoca­ lypse referring to the large-horned ram have been found. Since the Animal Apocalypse was known before the discovery of the scrolls, the identity of the ram will not be considered here.

7. For the M [aster. The Rule] of War. The unleashing of the attack of the sons of light against the company of the sons of darkness, the army of Belial, against the band of Edom, Moab, and the sons of Amman, and the ar[my of the people of] Philistia, and against the bands of the Kittim of Assyria and their allies the ungodly of the Covenant. ] all their bands, when the exiled sons of light return from the Desert of the Peoples to camp in the Desert of Jerusalem; and after the battle they shall go up from there.

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