John T wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 7:27 am
Sinouhe wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 6:34 am
A good summary on the situation would be Joseph L Angel :
Thanks for the link. Upon a cursory look I noted that Garcia Martinez agrees with Baillet in that Michael is still the
most plausible explanation. Of course I need to ready it fully, carefully, and then fact check it before once again dismissing Eshel's justification to claim it is a high priest and not Michael who sits on a throne in heaven.
That will take a few days.
Ok no problem.
I will just add that it would be very surprising if the angel Michael was identified by the author with the Human (suffering) servant in Isaiah
(Isaiah 11 + Isaiah 53) as it was already the case for :
- the eschatological high priest in 4Q541 (suffering servant)
- the Heavenly priest Melchizedek in 11Q13 (Servant)
- the Messiah in the messianic apocalypse (4Q521) (Servant)
- the priest and teacher of righteousness in the Hodayot (Servant + Suffering Servant)
It would raises the question :
- Why is he despised and abandoned ?
- Why does an angel was identified with the servant of Isaiah, a messianic character in Qumran texts ?
- 4Q161 - fragment 8-10 (Isaiah 11)
[And there shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse and a Branch shall grow out of its roots. And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or pass sentence by what his ears hear; he shall judge the poor righteously and shall pass sentence justly on the humble of the earth] (Isaiah xi, 1-3).
-->[Interpreted, this concerns the Branch] of David who shall arise at the end [of days] ... God will uphold him with [the spirit of might, and will give him] a throne of glory and a crown of [holiness] and many-coloured garments . . . [He will put a sceptre] in his hand and he shall rule over all the [nations].
- Isaiah 41
“Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will bring justice to the nations.
In my opinion, the most logical identification in the self-glorification hymn would be an eschatological priest and successor of the teacher of righteousness.
Or the teacher of Righteousness himself.