Testimonia
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4Q175 3
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Deuteronomy 5:29
4Q175 5
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Deuteronomy 18:18
4Q175 1:1
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Samaritan Exodus 20:21
4Q175 12
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Numbers 24:17
4Q175 17
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Deuteronomy 33:10
4Q175 5
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Acts 3:22
4Q175 22
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Joshua 6:26
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Summary
Date: 160–60 BCE
This short document from Cave 4, dating to the early first century BCE and similar in literary style to the Christian Testimonia or collections of messianic proof-texts, includes five quotations arranged in four groups. Only the last of them is followed by an interpretation. The first group consists of two texts from Deuteronomy referring to the prophet similar to Moses; the second is an extract from a prophecy of Balaam about the Royal Messiah; the third is a blessing of the Levites and, implicitly, of the Priest-Messiah.
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