Aramaic Levi Document

The Aramaic Levi Document is a Jewish pseudepigraphical text from Qumran that recounts Levi's vision of the priesthood and his instructions to his sons.|||Aramaic fragments from Qumran Cave 4 (4Q213–4Q214, 4Q540–4Q541), also known from the Cairo Geniza and Mount Athos.|||Composed in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Describes Levi's heavenly vision and his instructions concerning priesthood, sacrifice, and purity. Major source for understanding the priestly messianism of the Qumran community.|||Greenfield, J. C., Stone, M. E., & Eshel, E. The Aramaic Levi Document. Brill, 2004.|||Perrin, A. B. Horizons of Ancestral Inheritance. T& T Clark, 2022.|||Draper, J. A. " The Aramaic Levi Document." In Outside the Bible. JPS, 2013.|||Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library|https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/|View 4Q213–4Q214 fragments.;; Wikipedia — Aramaic Levi Document|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_Levi_Document|Background and scholarship.|||" And Levi saw the heavens opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending." — Aramaic Levi Document (paraphrase)