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Two time periods have been put forward and defended as the most probable time of composition: the Seleucid
period and the Roman period.[5] The Seleucid period proposals include the very beginning of the Maccabean
Revolt (165 or 164 BCE), the height of Jonathan’s military power (143 BCE), and the reign of John Hyrcanus
(135-104 BCE).[6] The scholars that believe that the date of composition occurred during the Roman period put
forward a date from the middle of the first century BCE to the first decade of the first century CE.[7] The War
Scroll’s description of the weaponry and tactics led Yigael Yadin to assign the composition of the scroll to a date
between the capture of Jerusalem by Pompey (65 BCE) and the death of Herod (4 BCE).[8] More recently,
author Russell Gmirkin in The War Scroll and Roman Weaponry Reconsidered (http://www.jstor.org/stable
/10.2307/4201555) disagrees with Yadin's analysis and assigns the weaponry described in the War Scroll to the
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second century BCE. Lt. Col. Peter Fromm (US Army Ret.) sides with Gmirkin also assigning the army and
weaponry described in the War Scroll to the second century BCE.[9]
Scholars have been unable to determine the exact author of the text. The unity and cohesiveness of the
manuscript, however, leads some, such as Jean Carmignac and Yigael Yadin, to believe that it was written or
compiled by a single writer.[10]
In modern times, the genre of 1QM has been described as apocalyptic literature, though some translators and
interpreters contend that it actually a part of sectarian liturgy. Jean Duhaime believes that it was probably
classified as a part of the serek (rule) texts developed by the Qumranites.[11]
Contents
1QM consists of 19 columns, of which the first 14-19 lines of each have been preserved.[14]
i. Summarizes the war between the “Sons of Light” and “Sons of Darkness.”
ii-ix. Deals with the battles between the tribes in greater detail, telling of a total forty years of combat.
Columns iii-iv deal almost exclusively with the inscriptions meant to be displays on banners, trumpets,
darts, etc.
x-xiv. A number of liturgical pieces.
xv-xix. Describes the seven-stage battle, led by the priests, between Light and Darkness. The battle is
finally won by divine intervention.[15]
Because xv-xix is believed to describe the war which took place in the first seven years of the forty year war,
many scholars feel that, at one time, more columns existed.[16]
Scholars have been disappointed to find very few connections between 1QM and the other war-related texts and
the rest of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There were, however, a number of notable links that can be made. In the
Community Rule (1QS), for example, the theme of a binary opposition between Light and Dark can be seen.
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Both include dualistic blessing and cursing liturgies. The “congregation of Israel” in its organization within 1QM
can be compared to the Rule of the Congregation (1QSa), as it is described as being broken into thousands,
hundreds, fifties and tens, with age limits listed for specific types of service within ranks.[17]
Collins, John Joseph. 1998. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic
Literature. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans.
Duhaime, Jean. 2004. The War Texts: 1QM and Related Manuscripts. T & T Clark International, London.
Schultz, Brian. Conquering the World: the War Scroll (1QM) Reconsidered. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2009
Segal, Alan F. 1986. Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World. Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press.
Wise, Michael, Martin Abegg Jr., & Edward Cook. 1996. The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation.
Harper. San Francisco.
Yadin, Yigael. “The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness.” Translated by B.
and C. Rabin. Oxford, 1962.
1. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
2. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
3. ^ ISBN 0-06-076662-X pp. 368-371
4. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
5. ^ Rost, Leonhard. 1976. Judaism outside the Hebrew canon: an introduction to the documents. Nashville:
Abingdon.
6. ^ Wenthe, Dean O. “The Use of the Hebrew Scriptures in 1QM.” Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 5, No. 3 (Nov., 1998),
pp. 290-319
7. ^ Wenthe, Dean O. “The Use of the Hebrew Scriptures in 1QM.” Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 5, No. 3 (Nov., 1998),
pp. 290-319
8. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
9. ^ Dating the Army of the War Scroll (http://www.jjraymond.com/religion/datingarmyofwarscroll.html) (May, 2012).
10. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
11. ^ Duhaime, Jean. 2007. “The War Texts: 1QM and Related Manuscripts.” Continuum International Publishing
Group. London, p. 53
12. ^ Lawrence H. Schiffman. 1998. "Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and
Rabbinic Judaism." Ktav. Hoboken, NJ, p. 359
13. ^ Vermes, Géza. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Penguin, 2004. ISBN 978-0-14-044952-5. p 164-165
14. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
15. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
16. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
17. ^ Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam. 2000. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea scrolls. New York,
N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
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