Un’escatologia realizzata nella Regola della Comunità di Qumran?: Una diversa valutazione semantica a partire da una nuova prospettiva sintattica di 1QS 9:9b11

The article aims to document a new understanding of a well-known passage from the Rule of the Community, studied within the eschatology and messianism of the texts of Qumran. Not so much an eschatological tension within an indefinite time – «until the prophet comes, and the Messiahs of Aaron and Israel» – but an expression that is placed in a founding past in relation to the injunction of the text that commands today to observe the founding Statutes who had shaped the elected community from the beginning to the coming of the prophet and the Messiah of Aaron and Israel. This allows us to read a sort of realized eschatology, with a fundamental character, in place of an indefinite future eschatology, as the academic community normally interprets this text. The general framework in which this new interpretation should be placed tends to put the Qumran case not so much as an isolated and sectarian reality, but rather representative of the most original institution of Jerusalem Judaism from the Persian era.