By Hultgren, S.J.
This quantity deals new perception into the origins of the ""new covenant within the land of Damascus"" and the Qumran neighborhood, and explores issues concerning their covenantal theology.
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That leads to another consideration that supports the secondary nature of the connection. There is clear evidence that the glossator has conflated the "builders of the wall" (Jewish society at large) with the "congregation of those who seek easy interpretations," the followers of the Man of the Lie. " In Ezek 13:10, 15-16, the plasterers are the false prophets who mislead the people. Thus the "builders" are in the position of those who are taught and led. "6' Clearly there has been a mistaken identification of the builders with the teachers and leaders of the people; in other words, someone has conflated the builders of the wall (the Jewish population in general) with the congregation of the Man of the Lie (a specific group within the population).
J. Brooke, "The Amos-Numbers Midrash (CD 7 13h 8 la) and Messianic Expectation," ZAW 92 (1980) 397-404; Davies, The Damascus Covenant, 146-47; Frederick M. Strickert, "Damascus Document VII, 10-20 and Qumran Messianic Expectation," RevQ 12 (1986) 327-35; Sidnie Ann White, "A Comparison of the Ά ' and 'B' Manuscripts of the Damascus Document," RevQ 12 (1987) 544^16. towards the little ones"; "those who revere him" are "the poor ones of the flock"—these will escape at the time of the visitation, but those who remain ( )הנשאריםwill be delivered up ( )ימסרוto the sword ()לחרב, when the messiah(s) of Aaron and Israel come(s).
56 Davies, ibid, 111-12, makes an observation that further supports the originality of the "builders of the wall" in CD IV, 19. " In Micah the "building of the walls" and the "extension far away" of the "boundary" are a vision of eschatological salvation. So also in CD the wall and the boundary are expressions of the security of the community in the end time. By contrast, in Ezek 13:5 the prophet reproaches the false prophets for failing to build a wall ()גדר for the house of Israel. Five verses later (13:10) appears the term "builder of the wall" ()בנה חיץ.