ABSTRACT

This chapter provides the description of sheet of two columns purchased by the Palestine Archaeological Museum in 1950. The preamble of a Constitution prepared for the day when the Zadokites came into power and form a theocratic government in Israel with the former priests or their descendants who are members of their party. The Zadokite state was to undertake the education of children. The basis of the instruction was the Law of Moses and the deductions that had been drawn from it. These had been put together in the Sepher HHGW, "the Book of Deductions". The chapter reflects typically Zadokite views on the age of combatants. At the age of twenty, a young man was entered on the civil registers, and at twenty-five received certain responsibilities. But it was only at the age of thirty that a citizen had to present himself for military service, at once he received the grade of officer or superior official in the administration.