Qumran grot 4. 90% van die Dooie Seerolle is in hierdie grot ontdek.
Recently, I was teaching a PRTS course for ThM students on the history and preservation of the biblical text. In one of the lectures, I included a discussion about the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the study of the preservation of Scripture. For that purpose I built a series of case studies from Qumran, in which I placed readings from the Old Testament beside readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls and students had to evaluate the differences and similarities for themselves.
This study takes the discussion outside the classroom and examines the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab) from the Dead Sea Scrolls as a case study for evaluating the relationship between the Qumran pesher hermeneutic and the New Testament’s use of Scripture. After considering the scroll’s significance as a textual witness to the preservation of Habakkuk, the study focuses on Habakkuk 2:4 and its interpretation at Qumran and in Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:37–38. The study argues that the Qumran material illuminates the interpretive diversity of Second Temple Judaism without providing the hermeneutical authority for apostolic exegesis. The New Testament’s interpretation rests on the fulfilment of God’s promises in Christ and the coherent testimony of Scripture itself. The comparison thus contributes to a Reformed understanding of biblical hermeneutics, the authority of apostolic interpretation, and the relationship between the historical meaning of prophetic texts and their canonical fulfilment.
You can read it following this link to Academia.edu or download it here.
Die herdenking van die 1700ste jaar sedert die Konsilie van Nicéa (325 n.C.), het vanjaar verskeie geleenthede gebied om die kern van die Christelike geloof weer te oordink en te bely.
In ’n wêreld waar geloofsoortuigings al hoe meer benader word asof dit afhang van die mening van die meerderheid, is dit noodsaaklik om as Christene duidelik te formuleer waarom geloof in die letterlike bestaan van die hemel ’n fundamentele waarheid in die Bybelse leer is. Die Bybel bied ’n perspektief op die hemel as ’n werklike plek, wat voorberei word deur Christus self, waar gelowiges in ewige gemeenskap met God sal verkeer. Hierdie waarheid is nie opsioneel vir die geloof nie, want dit anker die eskatologiese verwagting, morele lewe, en troos van die kerk deur die eeue heen in die belydenis van wat die Bybel daaroor leer.