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Thunder omens from Qumran (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
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Qumran texts

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A Zodiacal calendar from Qumran cave 4 is supplemented with a brontologion of Mesopotamian style. It provides a vital link to the analogous later Byzantine Greek texts.

Qumran scrolls, 4Q318 col. 8.6-9:
[If in Taurus] it thunders there will be … against [ … ] and affliction for the province and a swo[rd in the cou]rt of the king, and in the province … [ … ] will be. And to the Arabs [ … ] hunger, and they will plunder each other [ … ]. If in Gemini it thunders, (there will be) fear and sickness from the foreigners and … [ … ].

Source (list of abbreviations)
Qumran scrolls, 4Q318 col. 8.6-9

Bibliography

Greenfield and Sokoloff 1995, 510Greenfield, J. C. and M. Sokoloff. “An Astrological Text from Qumran (4Q318) and Reflections on some Zodiacal Names.” Revue de Qumran 69-70 (1995) 507-525.

Amar Annus


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