Gregory L. Doudna wrote in the article
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Doudna_TeacherofRighteousness.htm
mentiond by Stephen Goranson that
"Contrary to common thinking, the Teacher of
Righteousness never is said to have died or to have been a
figure from the past or from tradition in any of the Qumran
pesharim. In one edition of the Damascus Document, the
medieval "B" text known from the Cairo Geniza (which
presumably existed in full in the Qumran caves), there is a
prophecy that the Teacher will die-but nothing in that text
says that happened as anticipated."
Well, "they [the 'builders of the wall' as well as the renegades
from the Covenant of Damascus] are not (some write: shall not be)
reckoned among the Council of the People, and they are not (shall
not be) inscribed in their (the Yachad's) Account since the day of
the gathering of {the Instructor of Instruction
>From the day of}* the Instructor of the Yahad until the appearance
of a Messiah of Aaron and of Israel. [0CD xix.35-xx.1]
That means that the Instructor of the Yahad - the ToR - is dead
already and the above passage thus reflects the thinking of his
extant movement. The prophecy is then focused on the fate of the
wall-building opposition until the coming of the two Messiahs.
* {} correction in ms
NB I guess what Hyrcan II might have in common with the the poverty
of the Poor...
Dierk
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Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
www.kun.nl
The son of Telamon, sweeping in through the mass
of the fighters
struck him at close quarters through the brazen cheeks
of his helmet...
and the brain ran from the wound along the spear by
the eye-hole... (Iliad 17.193-98)
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