Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive
Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive
Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive
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Angel around . . . (5) a Wat[cher] and G[od] . . .<br />
Column 6 (Fragment 9) (1) with/people . . . (2) the appointed time . . . (3) in Piety . . . (4) for every<br />
genera[tion] . . .<br />
Column 6 (Fragment 10) (1) Lest you bring forth words of [folly.] . . . (2) heart. Listen to me and be<br />
sti[ll before me.] . . . (3) I have understood, so drink from [the Well of Life] . . .(4) His Temple. [<strong>The</strong>y<br />
walked . . . (5) His Temple is dwelling among . . . (6) forever marching . . . (7) or what grows of its<br />
own they shall gar[her . . .] (8) burned, and every weed [He uprooted . . .] (9) a Well of de[ep] Waters<br />
. . .<br />
Notes<br />
(27) Aramaic Testament of Levi (4Q213-214)<br />
Previous Discussions: J. T. Milik, 'Le Testament de Lévi en araméen: Fragment de la grotte 4 de<br />
Qumrân', Revue Biblique 62 (1955) 398-406, plate 4; idem, Books, 23-4, 214, 244 and 263; Beyer,<br />
Teste, 188-209. Photographs: PAM 43.241 and 43.243 (Manuscript A), 43.260 (Manuscript B), ER<br />
1277, 1279 and 1296. <strong>The</strong> Qumran Testament of Levi corresponds at a few points to the Greek<br />
Testament of Levi. It is much more closely related to the medieval manuscripts of an Aramaic<br />
Testament of Levi from the Cairo Genizah probably dating to the tenth or eleventh century AD. Those<br />
manuscripts reside at Cambridge and Oxford. <strong>The</strong>se correspondences have allowed us to restore large<br />
missing portions while presenting substantial previously unknown portions as well. <strong>The</strong> Aramaic was<br />
probably the source for the Greek as well.<br />
Manuscript A: For Fragment 1 Column 1, cf. Greek Testament of Levi 2:4b and 4:2; for Fragment 1<br />
Column 2, cf. Greek Testament of Levi 2:5-6; for Fragment 3, cf. the Oxford manuscript Column A<br />
and 1Q21, 4-5; for Fragment 4 Column 1-Column 2 Line 1, cf. the Cambridge manuscript Columns E-<br />
F.<br />
For Manuscript B: by and large this fragment is identical to Oxford C Line 6 to D Line 4.<br />
(28) A Firm Foundation (Aaron A - 4Q541)<br />
Previous Discussions: É. Puech, 'Fragments d'un apocryphe de Lévi et le personnage eschatologique:<br />
4QTestLévi{cd}(?) et 4QAj{a}', in J. Trebolle Barrera and L. Vegas Montaner (eds), Proceedings of<br />
the International Congress on the <strong>Dead</strong> <strong>Sea</strong> <strong>Scrolls</strong> -Madrid, 18-21 March, 1991 (Universidad<br />
Computense/ Brill:Madrid/Leiden, 1992). Photographs: PAM 43.587 and 43.588, ER 1534 and 1535.<br />
(29) Testament of Kohath (4Q542)