Florilegium of Qumran

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The Florilegium of Qumran (Siglum 4Q174, 4QFlor) is an outdated name for a text fragment that belongs to the Dead Sea Scrolls and one of the particularly poorly preserved texts in cave 4Q . It is now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem . The name was coined by John Marco Allegro in 1956, who wrote of a "Florilegium of biblical passages with commentaries drawn from the books of Exodus , 2 Samuel , Isaiah , Amos , the Psalms and Daniel ".

Using the method of material reconstruction, Annette Steudel was able to show that the Florilegium of Qumran belongs together with the work formerly known as Catena A (4Q177): fragments of two (palaeographically) different manuscripts, which are copies of the same literary work. Both fragments are now referred to in research as the midrash of eschatology (4QMidrEschat a and 4QMidrEschat b ). For several other text fragments it is discussed whether they also belonged to copies of this work:

Name old Sigel old Sigel new
Unclassified fragment 4Q178 4QMidrEschat c
Catena B 4Q182 4QMidrEschat d
Unclassified fragment 4Q183 4QMidrEschat e

The new name midrash for eschatology should not lead to the misunderstanding that it is a midrash , as it is known in later rabbinical literature as a form of biblical interpretation. Rather, Steudel chose this name because it occurs in the work itself (meaning, for example: "statement"). For reasons of content - no allusions to Romans - the work was created around the period 71–63 BC. To date.

The eschatology midrash has three main parts:

  1. Interpretation of the blessing of Moses (Deut. 33);
  2. Commentary on the promise of salvation for the Davidic dynasty (2 Sam 7:14);
  3. Eschatological interpretation of texts from the Hebrew Bible, mainly psalm quotations.

It contains the expectation that a future ruler from the Davidic dynasty together with a probably priestly "explorer of the Torah", Hebrew דורש התורה dôrēš ha-tôrāh , will appear. The author stresses that Gentiles will not have access to the end-time sanctuary; In research it is discussed how this end-time sanctuary relates to the real Jerusalem temple , which still existed at the time of writing.

literature

  • George J. Brooke: From Florilegium or Midrash to Commentary: The Problem of Re-naming an Adopted Manuscript . In: George J. Brooke, Jesper Høgenhaven (Ed.): The mermaid and the partridge: essays from the Copenhagen Conference on Revising Texts from Cave Four . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2011, pp. 129-150.
  • Annette Steudel: The midrash on eschatology from the Qumran community (4QMidrEschat ab): material reconstruction, text inventory, genre and historical classification of the work from the Qumran finds represented by 4Q174 ("Florilegium") and 4Q177 ("Catena A"). Brill, Leiden 1994, ISBN 90-04-09763-5 .
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra : Qumran. The texts from the Dead Sea and ancient Judaism , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-8252-4681-5 .
  • Géza G. Xeravits, Peter Porzig: Introduction to the Qumran literature. The Dead Sea manuscripts. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034975-7 , pp. 127–129 ( books.google.de ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George J. Brooke: From Florilegium or Midrash to Commentary: The Problem of Re-naming an Adopted Manuscript , Leiden / Boston 2011, p. 131.
  2. ↑ Géza G. Xeravits, Peter Porzig: Introduction to Qumran literature. The Dead Sea manuscripts. , Berlin / Boston 2015, p. 127.
  3. ^ Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra : Qumran. The texts from the Dead Sea and ancient Judaism , Tübingen 2016, p. 232.
  4. ↑ Stefan Krauter: Citizenship and Participation in Cults: Political and Cultic Rights and Duties in the Greek Poleis, Rome and Ancient Judaism . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2004, pp. 165–169.