3 texts in Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha
The Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot, הודיות) are a collection of intensely personal poems found in Cave 1 near Qumran, composed sometime in the 2nd or 1st century BCE. Several of them ...
One of the most mysterious poems in the Thanksgiving Hymns describes a woman in labor during a cosmic storm—and what she gives birth to may be the Messiah. The hymn (column 11) ope...
Near the end of the Thanksgiving Hymns collection comes a poem that captures the theology of the Qumran community in its purest form. The speaker—whether the Teacher of Righteousne...
