The Melchizedek Document

11Q13  Connected to: Dead Sea Scrolls War in Heaven Jubilee (biblical) 11Q13, also 11QMelch or the Melchizedek document, is a fragmentary manuscript among the Dead Sea Scrolls (from Cave 11) which mentions Melchizedek as leader of God’s angels in a war in Heaven against the angels of darkness instead of the more familiar Archangel Michael. The text is an apocalyptic commentary on the Jubilee year of Leviticus…

The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls  Provide the Jewish context of the early Netzari Faith, the sect of the Way.  The Early Believers Called: HaDerech (The Way)The Natsari Sect,  Netzarim-Natzraya. Almost all the Dead Sea Scrolls were fragmentary; not more than a dozen are intact. One of the fragmentary scrolls Is called 4Q246. If that’s too hard to remember, you can think of it as the Aramaic Apocalypse. 4Q246 or the Aramaic…