מארג מקראות מורכב ב'מקרא המשוכתב': הפרשנות לנבואת איש האלוהים לעלי בספר קדמוניות המקרא

In her analysis of the pesharim in the Damascus Document, Liora Goldman coins the term “complex cluster of Scriptural passages” to denote the reworking of a primary biblical text via secondary texts that share thematic or linguistic association. These draw additional scriptural passages in their wake to create an elaborate structure consisting of a number of sources. Τhis paper exemplifies the use of this device in a “Rewritten Bible” text— LAB 53:8–10. The passage reworks the prophecy of the “man of God” to Eli in 1 Sam 2:27–36, and draws on a number of disparate biblical verses in the process. Invoking Deut 18:5 and Numbers 17 (which also treat the election of the priestly family), it frames the blossoming of Aaron’s rod in the latter in the context of the Genesis account of the miraculous growth of fruit trees in the course of a single day. Identifying the priestly family of 1 Samuel 2 with Aaron’s rod, it further interweaves Ps 105:26–27, harmonizing the reference to Aaron’s election and Moses’ mission in the psalm with the depiction of Moses in Deut 34:11–12. It then retells the punishment of Eli’s house, as foretold by the man of God, in light of the description of the fulfillment of the prophecy in 1 Sam 4:17–18 and Ps 78:64, associating these passages with the transgression of Eli’s sons and the prohibition against taking a mother bird from a nest along with her young. By tying these passages together via the theme of parents and children dying at the same time, it hereby also sets the destiny of Eli’s house within a covenantal framework.