התפילות שבדברי המארות וחזון השבועות

The Apocalypse of Weeks, preserved in the Epistle of Enoch (1 Enoch 90–105), contains a vision that chronicles world history by dividing it into time units called "weeks". In the Ethiopic manuscripts of Enoch, the Apocalypse of Weeks appears in two separate parts: one part (93:3–9) describes the seven weeks from the creation of the world until the end of days, and the other (91:12–15) describes the last three weeks of the eschatological period. Despite the fact that they were found joined in a Qumran document (4Q212 = Engar), scholarly consensus holds that the vision of the seven weeks, which describes actual historical periods, should be distinguished from the vision of the last three weeks, which deals with metahistory. A text found at Qumran shows close affinity to the historical section of the Apocalypse of Weeks. This text, called Dibre Hamme'orot (4Q504–6), of which three copies were found at Qumran, contains prayers for each day of the week. In 1992 Esther Chazon (RQ 15, pp. 447–455) showed that the content of the different prayers for the successive days of the week reflects a chronological historical sequence. The complete parallelism between the historical events listed in Dibre Hamme'orot and the historical divisions recorded in the Apocalypse of Weeks leads to the conclusion that the author of the former was familiar with the latter and adopted its historical sequence as the framework for its prayers.