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

In: Dead Sea Discoveries
Author:
Ariel Feldman Brite Divinity School, TCU

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10 Sep 2018
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Abstract

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.

Title:
New Light on the Ten Jubilees of 11QMelchizedek (11Q13)
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15685179-12341454
Language:
English
Pages:
178–184
Keywords:
Jubilee; Melchizedek; 11QMelchizedek; Day of Atonement; eschatology
In:
Dead Sea Discoveries
In:
Volume 25: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5179
Print ISSN:
0929-0761
Subjects:
Hebrew Bible, Biblical Studies, Dead Sea Scrolls, General, Jewish Studies

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