House of the Lord

In his doctoral dissertation, The Temple Scroll and the Biblical Text Traditions, Magnus Riska analysed the text of Columns 2–13:9. Through this second study of 11QT, which covers Columns 29:3b–47:18, the so-called “Temple Source” is now analysed in its entirety. One of the main results of this analysis is the quantity of the different categories: in comparison with the dissertation, which showed that the analysed material represented a higher amount of Biblical Paraphrase and Rewritten Bible than Individual Composition, the present study reveals that the second section on the contrary contains a significantly higher amount of Individual Composition than any of the other categories.