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…
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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…