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MESSIANISM IN THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHA IN THE LIGHT OF THE SCROLLS MICHAEL A. KNIBB King's College London In view of the importance that has been attached to the messianic beliefs of early Judaism, it is salutary to recall that within the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha such beliefs are expressed in only a restricted number of writings. In fact, within these corpora the main evidence for belief in a messiah of any kind is contained in only five writings: Psalms of Solomon 17 and 18, 1 Enoch 37-71, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. Of these, the Testaments stand somewhat apart because they have come down to us as a Christian work, while three of the other writings (1 Enoch 37-71, 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch) probably all come from towards the end of the first century CE and contain views that have some similarities with one another. In these circumstances the discovery at Qumran of a number of texts containing messianic beliefs has provided a valuable addition to the evidence available for early Jewish messianic expectations; at the same time the Qumran texts have cast some light on the interpretation of the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical
Dead Sea Discoveries – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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