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The poetry of the Damascus Document

The central aim of this thesis is to analyse the text of the Damascus
Document, plates I-VIIl and XIX-XX, with a view to separating out the original
underlying poetical passages. The germ of this idea came from Soloff's article
'Towards uncovering original texts in the Zadokite Documents' (NTS, 5, p62-67) where he
reconstructed the underlying poetry of CD 1¹-2¹ and suggested that further
poetry existed in the following columns. I have therefore tried to demonstrate
the full extent of this poetry and have brought in parallel passages from the
Manual of Discipline where relevant.

Having identified the poetry, I have subsequently shown in the second
chapter that three basic strands exist in the Damascus Document, poetical,
redactional, and midrashic, all of which can help determine the Sitz im Leben
and the date of both the individual components and the overall document.
Finally in a chapter of corollaries, I have briefly considered the wider context in
order to demonstrate how these conclusions help to clarify our understanding
of Qumran theology and history

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