ABSTRACT
The history of scholarship on the relationship of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the New Testament, including the teaching of Jesus, has been characterized as of three sorts. The eschatological wisdom and the kingship of God found in the Dead Sea Scrolls seem to illuminate the teaching of Jesus. The juxtaposition of Msr l Mvn and the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice provide for a description of the immediacy of the experience of the sovereignty of God in combination with the acknowledgement that the reward of the elect still rests in the future. In the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice a significant and distinctive ingredient is the repetition of phrases that are concerned with the kingship of God, with divine sovereignty. Eschatological wisdom and the nearness of the kingdom of God can be juxtaposed in this one Palestinian Jewish setting to provide a rich combination against which several features of the teaching associated with Jesus can be illuminated.
