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HÅKAN BENGTSSON 185
“the Righteous Teacher” (qdch hrwm)
“the Priest” (Nhwkh)
“the Men of Truth” (tm)h y#n))
“the Doers of the Law” (hrwth y#w()
“the Poor” (My)tph or Mynwyb))
“Lebanon” (Nwnblh)
“the Council of the Yahad” (dxyh tc()
“the Returnees from the Wilderness” (rbdmh yb#)
“the Wicked Priest” ((#rh Nhwkh)
“the Liar” (bzkh #y))
“the Spouter of Lies” (bzkh Py+m)
“the Traitors” (Mydgbh)
“those Violent to the Covenant” (tyrbh ycyr()
“the Seekers of Smooth Things” (twqlxh y#rwd)
“the Last Priests of Jerusalem” (Myrx)h Myl#wry ynhwk)
“the Evil Ones of Ephraim and Manasseh” (h#nmw Myrp) y(#r)
“the Evil Ones of Israel” (l)r#y y(#r)
“the Kittim” (Mytkhor My)ytkh)
“the Rules of the Kittim” (Mytkh yl#wm)
“the Kings of Yavan” (Nwy yklm)
“the Lion of Wrath” (Nwrxh rypk)
“the House of Peleg” (glp tyb)
“the House of Absalom” (Mwl#b) tyb)
It goes without saying that the sobriquets above should not be considered
as all having the same function or belonging to an elaborate system. Here
is a preliminary subdivision of these names in four categories:
1a. Individual personal sobriquet, assumed to refer to an individual person
such as “the Righteous Teacher” (= the founder of the community), “the
Lion of Wrath” (= Alexander Jannaeus?).
1b. Individual impersonal sobriquet, assumed to refer to an impersonal single
entity such as an office or a teaching.
2a. Collective specific sobriquet, assumed to refer to a specific group such as
“the Kittim” (= Romans or Seleucids?), “the Seekers of smooth things”
(= Pharisees?).