4Q246 — Son of God Text

The Aramaic Apocalypse (4Q246), also known as the Son of God Text, is a fragmentary Aramaic text from Qumran Cave 4 that contains the earliest known references to a messianic figure called " Son of God" and " Son of the Most High."|||4Q246, a single fragment in Aramaic, acquired in 1958 from Cave 4 at Qumran. Written in Herodian script.|||Composed c. 100 BCE. Published by Émile Puech in 1974.|||Not canonical in any tradition. Classified among the Dead Sea Scrolls.|||Contains the phrases " Son of God" and " Son of the Most High" — the first known references to these titles outside the New Testament. Directly relevant to the background of Luke 1:32–35.|||Fitzmyer, J. A. " The Aramaic 'Son of God' Text from Qumran Cave 4 (4Q246)." In The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins. Eerdmans, 2000.|||Puech, É. " Fragment d'une apocalypse en araméen (4Q246 = pseudo-Dan) et le 'royaume de Dieu'." RB 99 (1992): 98–131.|||Collins, J. J. The Scepter and the Star. Doubleday, 1995.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View 4Q246 fragment images from the Israel Antiquities Authority.;; Wikipedia — 4Q246|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Q246|Background, scholarship, and translation of the Son of God Text.|||" He will be called the son of God, and they will call him the son of the Most High." — 4Q246 2:1