Melchizedek Redivivus in Qumran: Some Peculiarities of Messianic Ideas and Elements of Mysticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls. By Igor R. Tantlevskij. Pp. 80. (The Qumran Chronicle, 12/2.) Kraków: Mogilany, 2004. isbn 83 86110 56 2. Paper n.p
This is a rare and welcome contribution to the study of ancient Judaism from a Russian scholar. Tantlevskij discusses a handful of Dead Sea Scroll texts (11QMelch, 4QMessianic Apocalypse = 4Q521, 4Q246 = 4QpsDand, 4QMess ar = 4Q534, 4QApocryphon of Levia ar = 4Q540–541, 4QPrayer of Enoch = 4Q369, an...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 224-226 |
| Review of: | Melchizedek redivivus in Qumran (Kraków : Enigma Press, 2004) (Fletcher-Louis, Crispin H. T.)
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| Summary: | This is a rare and welcome contribution to the study of ancient Judaism from a Russian scholar. Tantlevskij discusses a handful of Dead Sea Scroll texts (11QMelch, 4QMessianic Apocalypse = 4Q521, 4Q246 = 4QpsDand, 4QMess ar = 4Q534, 4QApocryphon of Levia ar = 4Q540–541, 4QPrayer of Enoch = 4Q369, and the Self-glorification hymns in 4Q491c, 4Q427, 4Q431, and 4Q427) which evince an interest in a heavenly, divine, or angelic mediator., Tantlevskij brings three distinctive interpretative judgements to these texts. First, using Ockham's razor—‘plurality should not be posited without necessity’—in all these texts there is described a figure who, at a certain stage in the evolution of the Qumran community's ideas, was identified with Melchizedek. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli124 |