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The Dead Sea 'New Jerusalem' Text: Contents and Contexts

by Lorenzo Ditommaso

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
  • 16.6 x 24.2 x 1.3 cm

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This volume is the first study of the Aramaic Dead Sea New Jerusalem text conducted in light of the complete extent of the preserved manuscript copies and with full reference to previous reconstructions. In addition to presenting an edition of the Cave Four copies (4Q554, 4Q554a, 4Q555), Lorenzo DiTommaso discusses the genre of the NJ, the order of its material, and its antecedents and parallels in ancient urban design. He suggests that its New Jerusalem is not a heavenly city and that categories of earthly and heavenly Jerusalems perhaps impose an inappropriate taxonomy on the various ancient Jewish and Christian expressions of the New Jerusalem. The author demonstrates that the NJ shares virtually no points of contact with the Temple Scroll, and that neither text is likely dependent on the other. He also argues that the New Jerusalem of the NJ is neither an eschatological focus of pilgrimage nor a mustering point for the final battle, that the text's eschatological horizon is established by a review of history and anticipates a time when once-hostile nations are humbled, and that it was conceivably composed in the first third of the second century BCE, shortly before the Maccabean revolt.
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  • Author

    Lorenzo Ditommaso

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Mohr Siebeck

  • Published

    December 2005

  • Weight

    510g

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.2 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9783161487996

  • ISBN-10

    3161487990

  • Eden Code

    4892760

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