----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: [Megillot] Jonathan: 4Q448, 4Q523, recent bibliography?
> In my view, evidence is increasing that King Jonathan, Alexander Jannaeus, > also the Lion of 4Qpesher Nahum, was the Qumran mss "Wicked Priest." And that > his contemporary, Judah the Essene, the first known Essene individual, > mentioned in War and Antiquities, and as a teacher and prophet, was the > Qumran "Teacher of Righteousness." Still I'd recommend to follow the revised reading of Wacolde/Abegg_ tarbiz 60. 1990/91, pp 285-286 in E. Qimron_Concerning the Blessing over King Jonathan_Tarbiz 61, 1992/3, pp 565-567 - i.e "guard over" instead of "arise on behalf of" in Martinez_DSSE, for the text implicates no "talita kum" uprising atmosphere, but a blessing for the prolongation of the status quo. Exactly this is the position of J. Maier in Die Qumran essener: Die Texte vom Toten Merr, vol. II, Munich 1996, pp 525-6. BTW "wickedness" is the consequence of rejection of revealed "truth" - the denial of authoritative Torah directed by a Doresh ha-Torah. The Menahem the Essene anecdote is well-defined as paradoxography; Menahem typologically anticipates the job Nostradamus did later for Sixtus V.: to welcome a future ruler already as such - and that is, sorry to say that, perfect rubbish. _Dierk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
