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Teacher of Righteousness

MEDIATOR FIGURES ANNOTATED BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.6 THE TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

1.6.1 Primary Texts

The Damascus Document (cols. 1, 20; cf. cols. 6, 20.1?)
CDSSE 125-56
DSSNT 49-74
DSST 33-73

The Pesharim
CDSSE 466-91
DSSNT 114-22, 209-25
DSST 185-207

A possible relationship with the Hodayot (1QH), the Halakhic Letter (4QMMT), and the Temple Scroll (11Q19)?

1.6.2 Secondary Literature

George J. Brooke, "The Pesharim and the Origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls," in _Methods of Investigation of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran Site: Present Realities and Future Prospects_, ed. Michael O. Wise, et al. (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences vol. 722; New York, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1994) 339Ð53

William H. Brownlee, _The Midrash Pesher of Habakkuk_ (Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979)

John J. Collins, "Teacher and Messiah? The One Who Will Teach Righteousness at the End of Days," in _The Community of the Renewed Covenant: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls_, ed. Eugene Ulrich and James VanderKam (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994)

Frank Moore Cross, _The Ancient Library of Qumran_ (3rd ed.; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995) esp. ch. 3

P. R. Davies, _The Damascus Covenant_ (Sheffield: JSOT, 1983)

__________, "Communities at Qumran and the Case of the Missing Teacher," _RQ_ 15/57-58 (1991)

Devorah Dimant, "Pesharim, Qumran," _ABD_ V 244Ð51

Florentino Garc<'i>a Mart<'i>nez, "A 'Groningen' Hypothesis of Qumran Origins and Early History, _RQ_ 14 (1989-90) 521-41

Norman Golb, _Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?_ (New York and London: Scribner, 1995)

Maurya P. Horgan, _Pesharim: Qumran Interpretations of Biblical Books_ (Washington D.C.: Catholic Biblical Association of America, 1979)

Timothy Lim, "The Wicked Priests of the Gronigen Hypothesis," _JBL_ 112 (1993) 415-25

H.-J. v. d. Minde, "Thanksgiving Hymns," _ABD_438-41

J. Murphy O'Connor, "Teacher of Righteousness," _ABD_ VI 340-41

Elisha Qimron, "Miq<.s>at Ma<(>ase HaTorah," _ABD_ IV 843-45

Lawrence Schiffman, "Temple Scroll," _ABD_ VI 348-50

Geza Vermes, _The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective_ (London: SCM, 1994) esp. ch. 6

Ben Zion Wacholder, _The Dawn of Qumran: the Sectarian Torah and the Teacher of Righteousness_ (Cincinnati Ohio: Hebrew Union College Press, 1983)

A. S. van der Woude, "Wicked Priest or Wicked Priests? Reflections on the Identification of the Wicked Priest in the Habakkuk Commentary," _JJS_ 33 (1982)

__________, "Once Again: The Wicked Priests in the Habakkuk Pesher from Cave 1 of Qumran," _RQ_ 17/65-68 (1996) 375-84


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