FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
all established Biblical books, the name of God, YHWH (Yahweh), is
written in the square Aramaic script like the rest of the text; while in
non-Biblical writings, the name is written in Paleo-Hebrew, while the
rest of the text is in Aramaic.The goal of de Vaux’s international team was for the Oxford University
Press to publish all Qumran scrolls by 1962 in a series called the
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of Jordan. That didn’t happen. The
first, in 1955, contained the fragments found in the original cave,
known as Cave 1. In 1961, the second volume appeared, however, it
contained material discovered in the four caves of Wadi Murabba’at,
eleven miles south of Qumran, and was dated from 70-135 AD. This
find included the Hebrew versions of all the minor prophets, including
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk,
Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. In 1963, the third volume
was published, containing fragments from Cave 2, Cave 3, and Caves 5- 10; including the Copper Scroll found in Cave 3, and fragments from
two copies of The Book of Jubilees, a copy of which was later found at
Masada. Some researchers believe that the Copper scroll should be
put in a different category, and separated from the other texts that
have been found, because it is the only document that was recorded
on metal, it was written in a different variation of Hebrew, and was
discovered in an isolated section of the cave; which could indicate a
different origin. The fourth volume, in 1965, was a collection of Psalms
found in Cave 11. The fifth volume, in 1968, under the direction of
Allegro, contained some material from Cave 4, however, most of the
scrolls from this cave continued to be withheld from the public, even
though Allegro had said in 1964 that the compilation and translation
had been nearly completed by 1961. The sixth installment of the series
appeared in 1977, the seventh in 1982, and the eighth, which didn’t
even deal with the texts of Qumran, was released in 1990.
These eight volumes are said to represent only 25% of the information
contained in the Scrolls, even though Father Benoit had said in
December, 1985, that everything would be published by 1993. Strugnell
would later set a deadline of 1996. Then it was announced that it would
be done by 2000.Edmund Wilson, author of The Scrolls of the Dead Sea, said in 1955
that de Vaux’s team wanted to isolate the sectarian non-Biblical scrolls