Robert Doran on 1 Maccabees 4:46 and the Expectation of Prophets to Arrive on the Scene Then and There

  

Here at 1 Maccabees 4:46 in the midst of regaining control of the land, the author has Judas express the hope for a fully functioning community of priests, kings, and prophets as at the time of David. The Qumran community later longed for a prophet (1 QS 9:10-11; see also 4Q 175). (Robert Doran, 1 and 2 Maccabees“,” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid, and Donald Senior [3d ed.; London: T&T Clark, 2022], 583)