by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise
1992
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations, Symbols and Ciphers
Introduction
1. Messianic And Visionary Recitals
The Messiah of Heaven and Earth (4Q521)
The Messianic Leader (Nasi-4Q285)
The Servants of Darkness (4Q471)
The Birth of Noah (4Q 534-536)
The Words of Michael (4Q529)
The New Jerusalem (4Q554)
The Tree of Evil (A Fragmentary Apocalypse-4Q458)
Notes
2. Prophets And Pseudo-Prophets
The Angels of Mastemoth and the Rule of Belial (4Q390)
Pseudo-Jeremiah (4Q385)
Second Ezekiel (4Q385-389)
Pseudo-Daniel (4Q243-245)
The Son of God (4Q246)
Vision of the Four Kingdoms (4Q547)
3. Biblical Interpretation
A Genesis Florilegium (4Q252)
Joshua Apocryphon (4Q522)
A Biblical Chronology (4Q559)
Hur and Miriam (4Q544)
Enochic Book of Giants (4Q532)
Pseudo-jubilees (4Q227)
Aramaic Tobit (4Q196)
Stories from the Persian Court (4Q550)
4. Calendrical Texts And Priestly Courses
Priestly Courses I (4Q3 2 1)
Priestly Courses II(4Q32 0)
Priestly Courses III-Aemilius Kills (4Q323-324A-B)
Priestly Courses IV (4Q325)
Heavenly Concordances (Otot-4Q319A)
5. Testaments And Admonitions
Aramaic Testament of Levi (4Q2 13 -214)
A Firm Foundation (Aaron A-4Q541)
Testament of Kohath (4Q 542)
Testament of Amram (4Q543,545-548)
Testament of Naphtali (4Q2 15)
Admonitions to the Sons of Dawn (4Q298)
The Sons of Righteousness (Proverbs-4Q424)
The Demons of Death (Beatitudes-4Q525)
6. Works Reckoned As Righteousness- Legal Texts (P180)
The First Letter on Works Reckoned as Righteousness (4Q394-398)
The Second Letter on Works Reckoned as Righteousness (4Q397 - 399)
A Pleasing Fragrance (Halakhah A-4Q251)
Mourning, Seminal Emissions, etc. (Purity Laws Type A-4Q274)
Laws of the Red Heifer (Purity Laws Type B-4Q276-277)
The Foundations of Righteousness (The End of the Damascus Document: An Excommunication Text-4Q266)
7. Hymns And Mysteries
The Chariots of Glory (4Q2 8 6-2 87)
Baptismal Hymn (4Q414)
Hymns of the Poor (4Q434,436)
The Children of Salvation (Yesha') and The Mystery of Existence (4Q416, 418)
8. Divination, Magic And Miscellaneous
Brontologion (4Q318)
A Physiognomic Text (4Q561)
An Amulet Formula Against Evil Spirits (4Q 560)
The Era of Light is Coming (4Q462)
He Loved His Bodily Emissions (A Record of Sectarian Discipline-4Q477)
Paean for King Jonathan (Alexander Jannaeus-4Q448)
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