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Translation Fragment 1 (1) ... the time You have commanded them not to (2) ... and you shall lie about His Covenant (3) ... they say, 'Let us fight His wars, for we have polluted (4)... your [enemie]s shall be brought low, and they shall not know that by fire (5)... gather courage for war, and you shall be reckoned (6)... you shall ask of the experts of Righteous judgement and the service of (7) . . . you shall be lifted up, for He chose [you] . . . for shouting (8) ... and you shall bur[n...]and sweet... Fragment 2 (2) to keep the testimonies of our Covenant ...(3) all their hosts in forbear[ante . . .] (4) and to restrain their heart from every w[ork ...(5) Se]wants of Darkness, because the judgement ...(6) in the guilt of his lot . . . (7) [to reject the Go]od and to choose the Evil . . . (8) God hates and He will erect ...
(9) all the Good that... Fragment 3 (2) Eternal, and He will set us ...(3)[He jud]ges His people in Righteousness and [His] na[tion in ...] (4) in all the Laws of ...(5) us in [our]sins... Fragment 4 (1) from all tha[t...] (2) every man from his brother, because (3) ... and they shall remain with Him always and shall se[rvel (4) ... each and every tribe, a man (5) . . [twen]ty-[six] and from [the] Levites six(6) [teen . . .] and [they] shall se[rve before Him] always upon (7) . . . [in] order that they may be instructed in ... 4. The Birth Of Noah (4Q534-536) A pseudepigraphic text with visionary and mystical import, the several fragments of this text give us a wonderfully enriched picture of the figure of Noah, as seen by those who created this literature. In the first place, the text describes the birth of Noah as taking place at night, and specifies his weight. It describes him as 'sleeping until the division of the day', probably implying noon. One of the primordial Righteous Ones whose life and acts are soteriological in nature, Noah is of particular interest to writers of this period like Ben Sira and the Damascus Document. The first Zaddik (Righteous One) mentioned in scripture (Gen. 6:9), Noah was also 'born Perfect', as the rabbis too insist, as is stressed in this passage. Because of this 'Perfection', Rabbinical literature has Noah born circumcized. However this may be, 'Perfection' language of this kind is extremely important in the literature at Qumran, as it is in the New Testament. See, in this regard, the Sermon on the Mount's parallel: 'Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is Perfect' (Matt. 5:48). 'Perfection' imagery fairly abounds in the literature at Qumran, often in connection with another important notation in early Christianity, 'the Way' terminology. For Acts, 'the Way' is an alternative name for Christianity in its formative period in Palestine from the 40s to the 50s thrust. Noah is, therefore, one who is involved in Heavenly 'ascents' or 'journeying' or at least one who 'knows' the Mysteries of 'the Highest Angels'. For more on these kinds of Mysteries see Chapters 5 and 7 below, particularly the Mystery of Existence text. This emphasis on 'Mysteries' is, of course, strong again in Paul, who in 2 Cor. 12:1- 5 speaks of his own 'visions' and of knowing someone 'caught up into the Third Heaven' or 'Paradise'. One should also not miss the quasi-Gnostic implications of some of the references to 'knowing' and 'Knowledge' here and throughout this corpus. These kinds of allusions again have particular importance in Chapters 5 and 7. As the text states, echoing similar Biblical and Kabbalistic projections of Noah, Noah is someone who 'knows the secrets of all living things'. Here, the 'Noahic Covenant' is not unimportant, not only to Rabbinic literature, but also in directives to overseas communities associated with James's leadership of the early Church in Jerusalem from the 40s to the 60s AD. (James also seems to have absorbed some of Noah's primordial vegetarianism.) This abstention from 'blood', 'food sacrificed to idols' (i.e. idolatry), 'strangled things' (probably 'carrion' as the Koran 1 6:115 delineates it) and 'fornication', which Acts attributes to James in three different places, are also part and parcel of the 'Noahic
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this are important, as is the provo
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18. Enochic Book Of Giants (4Q532)
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Translation Fragment 1 (1) . . . al
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son, on the day of the festival of
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(references are to primeval dates,
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Chapter 4 - Calendrical Texts and P
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(9) Jeshua, (10) Shecaniah, (11) El
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secon[d] (year): The first lunar mo
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[Remembrance]. In H[uppah is the Da
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the thirtieth = the seventh of the
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confirms 'were dominated in all thi
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[On the sixteenth is the Sabbath of
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determined the name according to th
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third, the sign of Shecaniah;] (2)
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The use of the word 'swallow' in Co
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you will rejoice [in your God. Now]
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upper-class establishment and the m
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30. Testament Of Amram (4Q543, 545-
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Translation Manuscript C Column 1 (
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The surviving portions of the Qumra
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particular, is important, when it c
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Translation Fragment 1 (2) . . . wi
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the word 'Satan' and further adumbr
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Angel around . . . (5) a Wat[cher]
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Chapter 6 - Works Reckoned as Right
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of the Second Letter looks very lik
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tangible throughout the document. H
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issue of gifts from Gentiles. Also,
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a sabbath; (100) on the tenth (101)
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36. The Second Letter On Works Reck
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Translation (2) . . . because they
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the Way in the wilderness'. The ref
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lood of her purification. [She shou
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39. Laws Of The Red Heifer (Purity
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un]clean until the eve[n]ing. The m
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guilty of breaking it all.' This pa
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'exact sense of the Law'. The actua
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(37) A Pleasing Fragrance (Halakhah
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Merkabah mysticism. It is a work of
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Secrets', 'secret Truth', 'Treasure
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Surely [they are the to]t of Darkne
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. (5) Your Holiness . . . (6) you h
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published Hymns from Cave 1 by the
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'obscure Mysteries' - even 'the Mys
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destroyed, and the sons of Wickedne
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e covered, but by your arbitration
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was slowly moving in relation to th
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It will be recalled that the term '
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Way], and also to mix the . . . (7)
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imaginary or allegorical; or about
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we have seen, in i.6-7 of the Damas
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Previous Discussion: J. Starcky, 'L
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