War Scroll (1QM)

The War Scroll (1QM), also known as " The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness," is one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls, describing a forty-year eschatological war.|||1QM, one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Cave 1 in 1947. Written in Hebrew in a square Herodian script, dated to the late 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE.|||Composed in the late 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||Describes a forty-year eschatological war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness. Essential for understanding Qumran eschatology and the background of New Testament apocalyptic imagery.|||Yadin, Y. The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness. Oxford, 1962.|||Duhaime, J. The War Texts: 1QM and Related Manuscripts. T& T Clark, 2004.|||Schiffman, L. H. " The War Scroll." In The Dead Sea Scrolls: Texts and Context. Brill, 2010.|||The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls (Israel Museum)|https://dss.collections.imj.org.il/|View the complete War Scroll in high resolution.;; Wikipedia — War Scroll|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Scroll|Background and scholarship.|||" For the Maskil: The Book of the Rule of the War." — 1QM 1:1