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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person, where it would appear to become more of a pseudo-Ezekiel than a pseudo-Jeremiah<br />
composition, though one could even opine this for the curious historical information presented in<br />
Fragment 1.<br />
Of course, in this context, the very term 'pseudo' is perhaps inappropriate, as many people have<br />
doubted that the Biblical Jeremiah is entirely the work of a single individual by that name. Presumably<br />
after Jeremiah died many of his disciples continued to revere his words and gather his<br />
pronouncements, and many people believe they actually arranged or composed some of the portions<br />
found in the Biblical book. We do not know how long this process continued, but at a certain point it<br />
has to be considered pseudepigraphic. It would be difficult to know where the historical prophet left<br />
off and tradition began, and therefore where this fragment fits in. Indeed the present work may have<br />
been considered an authentic one, and in fact it does contain many interesting historical details.<br />
In the second and third fragments, not only do we have what appears to be the 'son of Man'<br />
terminology from Ezekiel, but also a probable parallel to Dan. 11:2's allusion to resurrection. Again,<br />
this is consistent with the ethos of other Qumran documents. In this context, one should note the<br />
positive attitude to David, paralleled, for instance, in Column v of the Damascus Document, as well as<br />
in Lines 28ff. of the Second Letter on Works Righteousness in Chapter 6 below, where David is<br />
referred to as a man of 'pious works', whose sins were 'forgiven' him. Another interesting reference is<br />
to 'the land of Jerusalem' in Line 2 of Fragment 1. This greatly enhances the sense of historicity of the<br />
whole, since Judah or 'Yehud' (the name of the area on coins from the Persian period) by this time<br />
consisted of little more than Jerusalem and its immediate environs.