Re: [Megillot] Davies response (was SV: osey hattora)

[Dierk van den Berg]

Just a marginal note on the following: « 4) Much of your historical interpretation rests on a distinction between the Interpreter of the Law who came to Damascus and the Teacher of Righteousness, and here you largely rely on CD 6.10-11 that looks to the eschatological rise of one who "teaches justice at the end of days."  But (a) the Interpreter of the Law appears to be another name for the Teacher of Righteousness (cf. the related title at 4QpPs(A) i 27); (b) after the death of the Teacher the exiles in Damascus did indeed look forward to the rise of a new Teacher in CD 6.10-11 as well as (or rather, equivalently) the rise of a new Interpreter of the Law (CD 7.18-19; 4QFlor 1-3 i 11-12).  These latter texts contain terminology characteristic of the time of the Serekh literature adopted by the Damascus exiles.»   I have not yet seen any such attempt before that has dealt with the literary vorlage of NT's conflict between the Johannine and the Jesus Movement  in such an April Fool's Joke fashion. Or was it thought as a true Pentagon stratagem? However, I'd strongly recommend to reread column 6 of CD in the context of colum 1, for since a decade we know already the difference between the two "Directors of the Torah", the mechoqeqot-giving, Essene-like Mechoqeq as well as the just rainmaking, "in righteousness judging" ToR (even if the rain did not fall in his days; perhaps somebody had destroyed the necessary cycles he had draw first...)...   _Dierk