Monday, October 19, 2020

"Born of Woman" (cf. Matthew 11:11 and John the Baptist) in the Community Rule (1QS) at Qumran

 

 

As what shall one born of woman be considered in your presence? Shaped from dust has he been, maggots’ food shall be his dwelling; he is spat saliva, moulded clay, and for dust is his longing. What will the clay reply and the one shaped by hand? And what advice will he be able to understand? (1QS 11.21-22 in The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, eds. Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar [Leiden: Brill, 1997], 99)