Conquering the world : : the War Scroll (1QM) reconsidered / / by Brian Schultz.

• Author: Schultz, Brian, 1968-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 76.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Notes: One folded page titled Synopsis of 1QM 7-9 and 1QM 15-19 inserted in pocket of back cover.; Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Bar-Ilan University, 2007 under title: The War Scroll from cave 1 (1QM) in the light of its related fragments from caves 4 and 11.

Unique in its genre and content, the War Scroll (1QM) presents a vision of an impending eschatological war. Although originally interpreted as being the product of a single author from the Qumran Sect, the composition's inconsistencies quickly led to the view that it is in fact an eclectic docu...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / B. Schultz
• Introduction / B. Schultz
• Chapter One. The war texts: Discovery and identification / B. Schultz
• Chapter Two. Outlining the war scroll / B. Schultz
• Chapter Three. The war in column 1 / B. Schultz
• Chapter Four. The war in column 2 / B. Schultz
• Chapter Five. The war in columns 3–19 / B. Schultz
• Chapter Six. The war scroll and the rule of the congregation / B. Schultz
• Chapter Seven. The Cave 4 war texts / B. Schultz
• Summary and synthesis / B. Schultz
• Bibliography / B. Schultz
• Index / B. Schultz
• Studies on the texts of the Desert of Judah / B. Schultz.