Prophetic Tradition in Qumran

The issue of prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls has attracted scholarly attention for quite some time. The reasons for this are apparent. The scribes who wrote the Scrolls were deeply involved with the interpretation of Hebrew prophetic scriptures, even creating exegetical literature of a new kind, the pesharim. Until the turn of the twenty-first century, it seems less attention has been given to studying the prophetic tradition.1 However, scholars have been curious about Qumran’s prophetic tradition. Therefore, this paper tries to understand the prophetic tradition at Qumran by looking at the Prophetic Vocabulary in the Dead Sea Scrolls, how prophecy is understood in the scrolls regarding the past and the future and then emphasizing the ongoing prophetic activity. Ultimately, it will give relevance to the present context of prophetic activity.

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