Hi, a couple of weeks back I had the opportunity to read through some translated dead sea scroll texts and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a few questions this experience inspired.
1) One document (i think it was either the Damascus document or the community scroll) had lines talking a prohibition of taking your livestock out of a pit on the sabbath day and a command to love you neighbour as yourself. The parallels to be found in the NT are strikingly obvious. I was wondering if anybody has the original Hebrew text of these two lines or any comments on the linguistic relationship with the Greek equivalents in the NT. 2) I vaguely remember also seeing a definition of a sabbath days journey i.e. a specific maximum distance somebody could travel. Does anybody know any similar comments that could predate the Qumran community? 3) There were some portions of documents concerning Enoch. I was wondering if the connection between a possible source for Jude's comments about Enoch in the NT has ever been made or some kind of relevant linguistic analysis? Just throwing it all out there. All constructive comments both off or on list welcome. James _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
