New Light on the Ten Jubilees of 11QMelchizedek (11Q13)

This note suggests a new reading and reconstruction of the oft-cited 11QMelchizedek 2:6–8. This passage is a part of the “pesher for the last days” expounding on Lev 25:13 and Deut 15:2. Its vision of future liberation from spiritual captivity to Belial relies on the language and conceptual framewor...

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Main Author: Feldman, Ariel 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-184
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Melchizedek text / Jubilee year
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Jubilee Melchizedek 11QMelchizedek Day of Atonement eschatology
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Summary:This note suggests a new reading and reconstruction of the oft-cited 11QMelchizedek 2:6–8. This passage is a part of the “pesher for the last days” expounding on Lev 25:13 and Deut 15:2. Its vision of future liberation from spiritual captivity to Belial relies on the language and conceptual framework of the Jubilee Year. Moreover, the pesher refers to a temporal scheme of ten Jubilees. The new reading helps clarify the precise timing of the eschatological redemption, “the beginning of the first Jubilee after [the] te[n] Jubilees,” and its implication for the scroll’s scriptural exegesis.
ISSN:1568-5179
Contains:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341454