By Jean Duhaime
The battle Texts is the identify given to a small workforce of useless Sea Scrolls that depict the instruction for and a few of the stages of the eschatological conflict among the 'Sons of sunshine' and the 'Sons of Darkness'. Jean Duhaime in short surveys the heritage of those texts from their preliminary discovery to their reputable booklet. He describes different scrolls and provides information in their contents and their relationships to each other. Duhaime summarizes some of the purposes helping a relationship of this composition to the Hellenistic or Roman interval and gives an instance of using the Bible within the battle Texts.
The individuals to the better half to the Qumran Scrolls sequence take account of all correct and lately released texts and supply broad bibliographies. The books within the sequence are authoritatively written in obtainable language and are perfect for scholars and non-specialist students.
Companion to the Qumran Scrolls, 6.
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28 The War Texts 26-28, 31-33 and 35 are insignificant pieces containing no more than a few letters or words. 4Q491b M"b (= 4Q491frgs. 1-3, 4, 5-6, 7, 16, 17, 19-21, and 23) Fragments 1-3 are made up of 13 pieces. Their assembling results in exceptionally long lines, but their contents seem consistent to Baillet, except for that of frg. 3, the placement of which he considered as 'incertain' (1982: 14). The first lines are apparently the end of a speech (lines l-4a), followed by instructions for the 'princes' of the congregation (lines 4b-5): after a mention of God's judgement against Korah and his congregation (cf.
5 cm wide by 3 cm high. The left margin is still visible on a few lines of frg. 1. Remnants of respectively nine, eleven and four lines are preserved. The line spacing is about 7 mm and the average letters 3 mm high; the lines have room for only around 45 letters or spaces. The Herodian script suggests a date in the second half of the first century BCE. 24 The War Texts Lines 1—2 of frg. ]'. 1-10, with variations. The topic is the appointment of priests and Levites for Temple service. In line 7, the text mentions presumably soldiers to be 'sw[ord-] trained' for combat and continues with a reference to the '[w]ar of [their] divisions'.
2. 4. 4Q497 War Scroll-like Text A The 54 fragments of this text appear on the back of poorly preserved pieces of a papyrus containing hymns or prayers (4Q499, in Baillet 1982: 69-72, pi. XXVI). It is not certain that all fragments belong to the same document; one of the largest ones (frg. 5 cm high, whereas one of the smallest (frg. 45) is only 7 mm wide and 5 mm high. Only a few letters of an average size of 3 mm have survived on each line, and a maximum of five or six lines, spaced by around 8 mm, for the best fragments.