Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls
James Bowley has reviewed Joseph L. Angel’s excellent book, Otherworldly and Eschatological Priesthood in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
Overall this is a successful, needed, and useful study of the ways Qumran texts portray otherworldly priests and eschatological priests. As it turns out, these are not small, minor topics among the scrolls, which makes sense, given the many texts interested in purity matters and texts that present the righteous community as a community of priests. Furthermore, as promised, Angel has shed light not just on Qumranic ideas of celestial and future priesthood, but also on the religious ideology and social history of the community/communities of the scrolls authors. Anyone interested in the Qumran community, in the ideologies of persons who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, and in the lively and diverse religious identities of Jews in the Second Temple Period will benefit tremendously from this study.
Read the complete review on H-Judaic.
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Der Sir
I have not read this Book lately because it contains the three divisions of priesthood in about Early Seleucid period 2nd Century BCE.
I can quote from Zadokite Priesthood has Post – Exilic Sons of Zadok are made up by
Sons of Levi ( Levites )
Sons of Aaron ( Priests )
Sons of Phinehas ( High Priests )
The Sons of Zadok mentioned them in Dead Sea Scrolls 4 times it seems that they are Sons of Phinehas the uniqueness in their role.
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John Stuart
Dear Sir
in the early period there was another Priesthood.
Melchizedek Priesthood
Zadokite Priesthood
Aaronite Priesthood
I think the the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the early Priesthood the Melchizedek Priesthood?
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John Stuart