Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

Translation
Fragment 1 (1) and my people shall be ... (2) with contented heart and with wil[ling soul...](3) and
conceal yourself for a little while ...(4) and cleaving ...(5) the vision that Ezek[iel] saw ... (6) a radiance
of a chariot, and four living creatures; a living creature [. . . and they would not turn] backwards [while
walking;] (7) each living creature was walking upon two (legs); [its] two le[gs ...](8) was spiritual and
their faces were joined to the oth[er. As for the shape of the] (9) fa[ces: one (was that) of a lion, and
on]e of an eagle, and one of a calf, and one of a man. Each [one had the hand of] (10) a man joined
from the backs of the living creatures and attached to [their wing.] And the whe[els...] (11) wheel
joined to wheel as they went, and from the two sides of the whe[els were streams of fire] (1 2) and in
the midst of the coals were living creatures, like coals of fire, [torches, as it were, in the midst of] G&
the whe[e]ls and the living creatures. [Over their heads] was [a firmament that looked like] (14) the
terrifying]ice.[And from above the firmament] came a sound ...
Fragment 2 (1) . . . in place of my grief . . . [And my heart] (2) is in confusion, together with my soul.
But the days will hasten on fast, until [all humankind] will say, (3) 'Are not the days hurrying on in
order that the children of Israel may inherit [their land?'] (4) And the Lord said to me: 'I will not