The Dead Sea Scrolls on the Identity of Mashiach, the “Chosen One of God” (בחיר אלהא)
The scroll marked 4Q534 (also labeled under the designations “4Qmess ar” and “4QElect of God”), has been much discussed in scholastic circles, since Jean Starcky first published an analysis of it, which appeared in “Les quatre étapes du messianisme à Qumrân,” in 1963. This “Elect of …