The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

The seminars scheduled for next week deal with the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the calendrical texts. Tonight I'll give you a few links that deal with the SOSS.

Here's the entry from the Library of Congress exhibit on the SOSS. It includes a photograph of 4Q403 (click on it for an enlargement), some information on the work, and an excerpt from Newsom's translation.

Here's an abstract of a paper on the SOSS ("The Macrocosmic Temple, Scriptural Exegesis, and the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice") which I presented in my 2001 Dead Sea Scrolls conference. The whole paper was published as an article in Dead Sea Discoveries in 2002. You can access it here, but it requires a paid personal or institutional subscription. Other relevant papers from that conferences included my "Melchizedek, the 'Youth,' and Jesus: the Dead Sea Scrolls and Messianism, Christology, and Mysticism" (abstract); Ra'anan Abusch, "Seven-fold Praise in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and the Hekhalot Literature: Literary Context and Historical Continuity in Early Hebrew Hymnic Poetry" (abstract); and Alexander Golitzin, "Recovering the Glory of Adam: Selected Themes from the Dead Sea Scrolls Present in the Macarian Homilies and Other Christian Ascetic Writings of Fourth-Century Syro-Mesopotamia" (abstract). All three were published in the conference volume.

My book Liturgical Works (Eerdmans Commentary on the Dead Sea Scrolls 6; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2000) has a long chapter on the SOSS. You can read part of it in the Amazon excerpt, although it doesn't work very well with a dial-up connection. The entry on the Eerdmans website works better and also has an excerpt on the SOSS.

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