Cross-Reference Map for Key Themes

Cross-Reference Map for Key Themes

Where the great themes are borne across the witnesses

This map gathers the chief themes of the project and points to the witnesses that bear most upon each, so that the reader may follow a single thread across the whole gathering. The lists are representative, not exhaustive.

Judgment as Restoration

The prophets; the apocalyptic visions of Enoch and the Sibylline Oracles; the Qumran eschatological wisdom; the restoration hope of the Treatise on the Resurrection.

The Soul: its origin, fall, and return

The Exegesis on the Soul; the Hymn of the Pearl; Authoritative Teaching; the Gospel of Mary; the Hekhalot ascent fragments; the Mandaean and Manichaean prayers (see also the Ascent of the Soul bridge document).

Angels, Watchers, and Spirits

1 Enoch and the Book of Giants; the Visions of Amram and the two spirits; the Songs of the Sage; the angelic adjuration and protective witnesses; the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice.

Wisdom

Proverbs, Sirach, and the Wisdom of Solomon; the Qumran sapiential works; Pseudo-Phocylides and the Sentences; the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Greek wisdom background.

The Messiah and the Deliverer

The prophets; the Qumran Messianic Anthology and the Isaiah and other pesharim; the Branch of David; the apocalyptic expectation of the Sibyllines and the Scrolls.

Prayer and Praise

The Psalms and the apocryphal psalms; the Hodayot and the Qumran prayers; the Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers; the Syriac, Mandaean, and Manichaean prayer witnesses.

Resurrection and the Life to Come

Daniel and the apocalyptic writings; Third Corinthians on the resurrection of the flesh; the Treatise on the Resurrection; the restoration hope across the witnesses.