Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judaea

by Milik, J. T.; Strugnell, J.

• ISBN13: 9781608990368
• ISBN10: 1608990362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

M. L'Abb J. T. Milik was a Polish priest who, after brilliant studies in Rome, worked in Jerusalem from 1952, first at the cole Biblique et Archologique Franhise, and later in connection with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He took part in the exploration of the Qumrn. From the beginning, he collaborated in the work of publication. With Father D. Barthlemy he published the fragments from Cave I, Qumrn Cave I (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert), Oxford 1955; he was the most active member of the international team, which prepared for publication the considerable collection from Cave IV. The fragments from Cave V and the copper rolls from Cave III were entrusted to him. He would eventually publish the Hebrew and Aramaic documents from Murabba't; he published some fragments from Hirbet Mird and from unidentified caves in the south. He had been given direct access to all the documents still unpublished, which were kept together in the Palestine Archaeological Museum in Jerusalem. In short, this work was written by a specialist who knew better than anyone the places and documents of which he spoke. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
List of Illustrations	p. 9
List of Abbreviations	p. 10
The Story of the Discoveries	p. 11
The first manuscript cave of the Qumrân area (IQ)	p. 11
Discoveries at Murabba'ât. Caves II and III at Qumrân	p. 14
Hirbet Mird and a cache from the Second Revolt	p. 15
Qumrân Caves IV, V and VI	p. 16
Qumrân Caves VII-XI and a new cave at Murabba'ât	p. 18
The Qumrân Library	p. 20
How the scrolls were written	p. 21
Biblical manuscripts:
The Torah	p. 23
The Former Prophets	p. 25
The Latter Prophets	p. 26
The Writings	p. 27
The Hebrew of the biblical text: new data	p. 28
The Deutero-canonical books or Apocrypha	p. 31
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha:
Jubilees	p. 32
The Book of Enoch	p. 33
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs	p. 34
Other Old Testament Pseudepigrapha	p. 35
Sectarian literature:
The Rule of the Community	p. 37
The Damascus Document	p. 38
The Rule for the War; the Hymns	p. 39
Commentaries on biblical books	p. 40
Other writings found at Qumrân	p. 41
History of the Esaeaes	p. 44
A text from Pliny	p. 44
The exploration of Qumrân	p. 45
Description, of the ruins	p. 46
The phases of occupation at Qumrân	p. 49
Qumrân and the Essenes	p. 56
The evidence of the Qumrân texts	p. 56
The Damascus Document	p. 58
4Q Testimonia	p. 61
The Habakkuk Commentary	p. 64
Other allusions	p. 71
The Teacher of Righteousness	p. 74
Synthesis	p. 80
'They were like the blind ... for twenty years'	p. 80
First phase: strict Essenism	p. 83
Second phase: Essenism with Pharisaic nuances	p. 87
Third phase: the Essenes during Herod's reign	p. 93
Fourth phase: Essenism with Zealot tendencies	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 98
Essene Organization and Teachings	p. 99
The hierarchy	p. 99
Admission of new members	p. 101
Ora et labora	p. 103
The sacred banquet	p. 105
The calendar and the feasts	p. 107
The True Israel and the New Covenant	p. 113
The two spirits	p. 118
The spiritual life of the Essenes	p. 119
The eschatological war	p. 121
The two Messiahs	p. 123
The Discoveries in the Judaean Wilderness and their Importance	p. 129
Documents spread over two thousand years	p. 129
The linguistic importance of the discoveries	p. 130
Palaeography	p. 133
Historical and onomastic importance of the texts	p. 136
Legal importance of the texts	p. 137
The Qumrân texts and Hebrew literature	p. 139
The discoveries in the Judaean Desert and the history of religions	p. 140
Chronohgcal Table	p. 144
Bibliography:
Editions	p. 147
Selected books	p. 149
Translations of the non-biblical texts	p. 149
Discussions in books and articles	p. 150
Additional Notes	p. 151
Index of Subjects	p. 153
Index of Passages Cited	p. 157
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