The Dead Sea Scrolls in English

ISBN 13:
9780140237306
ISBN 10:
0140237305
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/01/1995
Publisher: Penguin Group USA

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'This significantly expanded and revised fourth edition of what has always been the best English translation of the Scrolls has become a combination of two books: Vermes has replaced nearly all of the original Introduction with an abridged version of the corresponding material from The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective... He has also added new translations of material that has been published since the last edition appeared in 1975... By far still the best edition of the scrolls in English.' James R Mueller, Religious Studies Review

PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION

viii

(3)

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION (1987)

(2)

INTRODUCTION

xiii

(23)

SCROLL CATALOGUE

xxxvi

(21)

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

lvii

I. THE COMMUNITY

(22)

APPENDIX: THE ESSENES AND THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY

(3)

II. THE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY

(18)

III. THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF THE COMMUNITY

(24)

NOTE ON THE TEXTS

(4)

A. THE RULES

(120)

1. The Community Rule (IQS)

(21)

2. The Community Rule (4QS^d=4Q258)

(3)

3. The Community Rule (4QS^e=4Q259)

(2)

4. The Damascus Document (CD)

(19)

5. The Damascus Document: Skin Disease (4QD^(a/g)=4Q266/272)

114

(1)

6. The Damascus Document: Penal Code (4QD^(a/e)=4Q266/270)

115

(2)

7. The Damascus Document: Renewal of the Covenant Ritual (4QD^(a/e)=4Q266/270)

117

(2)

8. The Messianic Rule (IQSa=IQ28a)

119

(4)

9. The War Rule (IQM)

123

(23)

10. The War Rule from Cave 4 (4Q491, 4Q493)

146

(3)

11. The Rule of War (4Q285, 11Q14)

149

(2)

12. The Temple Scroll (11QT=11Q19)

151

(30)

13. MMT (Some Observances of the Law): Peroration (4Q399)

181

(2)

14. The Wicked and the Holy (4Q181)

183

(1)

15. 4QTohorot (Purities) A (4Q274)

184

(1)

16. Curses of Satan and His Lot (4Q286-7)

185

(1)

17. Curses of Melkiresha` (4Q280=4QTohorot D(b))

186

(3)

B. HYMNS, LITURGIES AND WISDOM POETRY

189

(102)

18. The Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH)

189

(48)

19. The Apocryphal Psalms (11QPs^a=11Q5)

237

(7)

20. A Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)

244

(2)

21. Poetic Fragments on Jerusalem and `King' Jonathan (=4Q448)

246

(2)

22. Lamentations (4Q179, 4Q501)

248

(2)

23. The Words of the Heavenly Lights (4Q504)

250

(4)

24. Songs for the Holocaust of the Sabbath (4Q400-407, 11Q5-6)

254

(10)

25. Liturgical Prayer (1Q34 and 34bis)

264

(1)

26. Prayers for Festivals (4Q507-9)

265

(2)

27. Daily Prayers (4Q503)

267

(1)

28. Blessings (1QSb=1Q28b)

268

(3)

29. Purification Ritual (4Q512)

271

(1)

30. The Triumph of Righteousness (1Q27)

272

(1)

31. The Seductress (4Q184)

273

(2)

32. Exhortation to Seek Wisdom (4Q185)

275

(2)

33. A Liturgical Work (4Q392)

277

(1)

34. A Sapiential Work (4Q424)

278

(2)

35. Bless, My Soul (4Q434)

280

(2)

36. Songs of the Sage (4Q510-11)

282

(4)

37. Beatitudes (4Q525)

286

(5)

C. BIBLE INTERPRETATION

291

(76)

Introductory Note

291

(1)

38. The Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen)

292

(8)

39. A Genesis Commentary (4QpGen^a=4Q252)

300

(3)

40. A Flood Apocryphon (4Q370)

303

(1)

41. The Ages of the Creation (4Q180)

304

(1)

42. The Testament of Levi^d (4Q541)

305

(1)

43. The Testament of Naphtali (4Q215)

306

(1)

44. A Joseph Apocryphon(b) (4Q372)

307

(2)

45. The Testament of Qahat (4Q542)

309

(2)

46. The Testament of Amram (4QAmram=4Q543-8)

311

(3)

47. The Words of Moses (1Q22)

314

(2)

48. A Moses Apocryphon (4Q375)

316

(1)

49. Pseudo-Moses(e) (4Q390)

317

(2)

50. The Samuel Apocryphon (4Q160)

319

(1)

51. Commentaries on Isaiah (4Q161-4)

320

(4)

52. The New Jerusalem (4Q554-5, 5Q15)

324

(3)

53. Second Ezekiel^a (4Q385)

327

(2)

54. The Prayer of Nabonidus (4QprNab=4Q242)

329

(1)

55. The Pseudo-Danielic Writings (4QpsDan=4Q245)

330

(1)

56. An Aramaic Apocalypse (4Q246)

331

(2)

57. Commentaries on Hosea (4Q166-7)

333

(2)

58. Commentary on Micah (1Q14)

335

(1)

59. Commentary on Nahum (4Q169)

336

(4)

60. Commentary on Habakkuk (1QpHab)

340

(8)

61. Commentary on Psalms (4Q171, 4Q173)

348

(5)

62. Midrash on the Last Days (4Q174)

353

(2)

63. Messianic Anthology or Testimonia (4Q175)

355

(2)

64. Ordinances or Commentaries on Biblical Law (4Q159, 4Q Melch513-14)

357

(3)

65. The Heavenly Prince Melchizedek (11QMelch=11Q13)

360

(3)

66. Consolations or Tanhumim (4Q176)

363

(4)

D. MISCELLANEA

367

(12)

67-8. `Horoscopes' (4Q186, 4Q534)

367

(3)

69. A Brontologion (4Q318)

370

(2)

70. The Copper Scroll (3Q15)

372

(7)

CHRONOLOGY

379

(3)

MAJOR EDITIONS OF QUMRAN MANUSCRIPTS

382

(2)

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

384

(2)

INDEX

386

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