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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-184 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Melchizedek text
/ Jubilee year
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341454 |