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Re: 4Q318



On astrological lore and apocalyptic, check Michael Stone, "List of 
Revealed Things in Apocalyptic Literature," in _Magnalia Dei (G. E. Wright 
Memorial), eds. F. M. Cross, Jr., W. lemke, and P. D. Miller (New York: 
Doubleday, 1976): 414-52; and by the same author, _Scriptures, Sects and 
Visions:  A Profile of Judaism from Ezra to the Jewish Revolts 
(Cleveland: Collins, 1980).

David Suter
Saint Martin's College

On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Ita Sheres wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Jim West wrote:
> 
> > This text is describe by Michael Wise as a "Brontologion" and he connects it
> > to the fascination towards things astrological found in some segments of
> > 2nd Temple Judaism.  The question that this and other astrological texts
> > (such as 4Q186, 4Q561, and 4QMess ar)  from Qumran raises is:
> > how could the "Scroll writers" participate in something that is clearly
> > forbidden in the text of the Hebrew Bible (in Is 47:13-14)?
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Jim West, ThD
> > Professor of Biblical Languages
> > Petros Tn
> > 
> Dear Jim West,
> 
> We probably need to account for the apocalyptic strain within the Qumran 
> community (as revealed in the scrolls); I would think that if indeed they 
> felt that the millennium is approaching and "new things will be provided 
> for by God", the asrtological speculations could be a part of it; there 
> were other antinomian movements of this sort also related to the ideology 
> of the end (ketz). 
> 
> Ita Sheres
> San Diego State University.
> > 
>