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TIlE BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST 55 heart) God has put (wisdom) to interpret all the words of His servants the prophets . . . " In DSH vii, 4 f. he is characterized as "the Righteous Teacher to whom God has made known all the mysteries of the words of His servants the prophets." A second principal leader of the sect is known to us from the fragments of a "Zadokite Work" (or the "Cairo Fragments of a Damascene Covenant") which were discovered in 1896 by Solomon Schechter (Fig. 1) among a wealth of other material in the genizah of a medieval synagogue at Cairo. This document was judged by Schechter himself (at that time president of Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) as a late literary survival from a pre-Christian Jewish sect which he called the Zadokites. It is an undisputed fact that the sectaries of the Dead Sea Scrolls are the same as the Zadokites-only it would seem to some that the "Cairo Damascene Covenant" (hereafter abbreviated CDC) represents a later phase of the sect's history and literary output, and that the "Zadokites" were in reality an Essene sect." Now this document mentions besides the Teacher of Righteousness another leader known as "the Star," who led a migration

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Author

William H. Brownlee

Published

1951

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)