The Scepter and the Star: Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Biblia.com)

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In The Scepter and the Star John J. Collins offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Collins breaks these expectations into three categories: Davidic, priestly, and prophetic. Based on a small number of prophetic oracles and reflected in the various titles and names assigned to the messiah, the Davidic model holds a...

the men of the Community …” (… תורה עם אנשׁי היחד …) and the solar calendar is used in the chronology of the Flood.67 By analogy with the Florilegium, we might suggest that the reference was to the Interpreter of the Law, who is to arise with the Branch of David at the “end of days.” This pesher on Genesis 49 was distinctive in one respect. The word for staff (מחקק) also occurs in the Damascus Document, CD 6:3–9, where it is cited, not from Genesis 49, but from Num 21:18 (“the well which the princes

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