Conquering the World : The War Scroll (1QM) Reconsidered


Brian Marc. Schultz
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Leiden : : BRILL, , 2009.
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1 online resource (468 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Sigla; List of Tables and Plates; Introduction; Chapter One The War Texts: Discovery and Identification; Chapter Two Outlining the War Scroll; Chapter Three The War in Column 1; 1. The Problem: an Apparent Lack of Coherence in the War Scroll; 2. The Problem of Reconstructing 1QM 1:3-6; 3. The Historical Setting of the War: a Dependence upon Daniel 11:40-12:3; 4. The Participants in the War; 5. The Kittim; 6. The Geography of the War; 7. Summary; Chapter Four The War in Column 2; Chapter Five The War in Columns 3-19. - Chapter Six The War Scroll and the Rule of the CongregationChapter Seven The Cave 4 War Texts; Summary and Synthesis; Bibliography; General Index; Index of Ancient Sources; Index of Modern Authors. - Presents an examination of the War Scroll (1QM) that suggests that it is a Hellenistic composition describing an eschatological, two-stage, conquest of the world, subsequently updated in order to fit the historical realities faced by the Qumran sectarians under Roman rule.
Emner
Dødehavsrullene . 1QM : (NO-TrBIB)9028853
War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness.
Judaism
Philosophy & Religion
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9789004168206

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