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What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and what do we know about the community that possessed them? This important work situates the Dead Sea Scrolls in their historical context of Second Temple Judaism and the rise of Early Christianity. Expert scholars address the issue in four sections: The Qumran Community; The Qumran Biblical Text and the Masoretic Text; Sectarian Law and...
The Eclipse of Kingship in the Second Temple Period In general, the Second Temple period is characterized by a transfer of focus away from the monarchy and aspirations to independence, and toward the priesthood and the cult. The process can be illustrated from the books of Haggai and Zechariah.27 Haggai hailed Zerubbabel as a ‘signet ring’, the authorized representative of the Lord (Hag 2:21–24), and Zechariah refers to him as ‘the branch’ (Zech 3:8; צמח), a common Near Eastern metaphor for the
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