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style="display:none">1st-century BCE Essene text</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses of the phrase "Book of Secrets", see <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Secrets_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Book of Secrets (disambiguation)">Book of Secrets (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p>The <i><b>Book of Mysteries</b></i> (also known as the <i><b>Book of Secrets</b></i>) is an ancient <a href="/wiki/Essenes" title="Essenes">Essene</a> text found in fragmentary form among the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>. The scroll fragments are given the <a href="/wiki/Alphanumeric" class="mw-redirect" title="Alphanumeric">alphanumeric</a> designations of 1Q27 and 4Q299–301. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wisdom_literature">Wisdom literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Mysteries&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Wisdom literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Book of Mysteries</i> is closely related to another unnamed <a href="/wiki/Wisdom_literature" title="Wisdom literature">wisdom book</a> found among the <a href="/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls">Dead Sea Scrolls</a>, variously called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_of_the_Way_Things_Are" class="mw-redirect" title="The Secret of the Way Things Are">The Secret of the Way Things Are</a></i> or the <i>Sapiential Work</i>. In both texts, the term <i>raz</i> occurs frequently. <i>Raz</i> means "mystery" or "secret", and is defined as a type of wisdom or knowledge that is known by God and can only be known by humans by divine revelation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarrington2000588–589_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarrington2000588–589-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This word often occurs in the phrase <i>raz nihyeh</i>, which can be translated as "the secret of the way things are".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWiseAbeggCook2005109_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWiseAbeggCook2005109-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The assumption behind <i>The Book of Mysteries</i> is that <a href="/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation">revelation</a>, not reason, is the key to wisdom. The book is authored by an unnamed teacher who claims to be the recipient of such a revelation and is passing it along to his students. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Mysteries&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As with many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the question of who wrote the scrolls and when has no definite answer. Dates as to when the manuscripts were copied can only be estimated. The copy of mystery text 1Q27 has been dated on <a href="/wiki/Paleography" class="mw-redirect" title="Paleography">paleographic</a> grounds to the end of the first century BCE, so the book is at least that old.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson2000587_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson2000587-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Schiffman" title="Lawrence Schiffman">Lawrence Schiffman</a> believes that the ideology, orthography and language of the texts show that it originates from the same circle as other sectarian works found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson2000588_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson2000588-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The tone of the writing reflects an elite group which believes that it alone holds the correct understanding of <a href="/wiki/YHWH" class="mw-redirect" title="YHWH">YHWH</a>'s plan for the universe and how to please him so as to be saved from the fate of the ignorant and hypocritical. Much of <i>The Book of Mysteries</i> appears to be a teaching of correction against those who do not live righteously in the author's eyes. They warn of the hypocrisy of nations, the false knowledge of magicians, and the wrath of God upon sinners. They especially warn against the fate of those who do not recognize the divine mysteries. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Last_days">Last days</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Mysteries&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Last days"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">eschatology</a> of the book is rather unusual. The end time described by the author does not manifest itself in the normal culmination of a battle, judgment or catastrophe, but rather as "a steady increase of light, [through which] darkness is made to disappear or in which iniquity dissolves and just as the smoke rising into the air eventually dissipates".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPiper195897_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPiper195897-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this sense, wisdom is an inevitable force that needs to be yielded to by those who choose to accept it and are capable of understanding it. There is no mention of angels, or YHWH's coming, or resurrection of the wise, or any of the typical <a href="/wiki/Messianism" title="Messianism">messianic</a> language that is usually associated with Jewish or Christian eschatological texts. It simply argues for a change in focus from folly to wisdom, and therefore righteousness. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Mysteries&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarrington2000588–589-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHarrington2000588–589_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHarrington2000">Harrington 2000</a>, pp. 588–589.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWiseAbeggCook2005109-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWiseAbeggCook2005109_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWiseAbeggCook2005">Wise, Abegg & Cook 2005</a>, p. 109.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson2000587-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson2000587_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarson2000">Larson 2000</a>, p. 587.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELarson2000588-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELarson2000588_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLarson2000">Larson 2000</a>, p. 588.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPiper195897-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPiper195897_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPiper1958">Piper 1958</a>, p. 97.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_and_cited_sources">General and cited sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Book_of_Mysteries&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: General and cited sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Davies, Phillip R., George J. Brooke, Phillip R. Callaway. Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.</li> <li>Harrington, Daniel J. Wisdom Texts of Qumran. 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The Great Psalms Scroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Hebrew_Leviticus_Scroll" title="Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll">11QpaleoLev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11Q13" title="11Q13">11Q13 Melchizedek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11Q18_New_Jerusalem" title="11Q18 New Jerusalem">11Q18 New Jerusalem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barkhi_Nafshi" title="Barkhi Nafshi">Barkhi Nafshi (4Q434–438)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Giants" title="The Book of Giants">The Book of Giants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="The Book of Mysteries">The Book of Mysteries (1Q27 and 4Q299–301)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Community_Rule" title="Community Rule">Community Rule (1QS, 4QS, 5Q11, 5Q13)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copper_Scroll" title="Copper Scroll">Copper Scroll (3Q15)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damascus_Document" title="Damascus Document">Damascus Document (CD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genesis_Apocryphon" title="Genesis Apocryphon">Genesis 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Physiognomies">Physiognomies</a>/<a href="/wiki/Qumran_%22Horoscopes%22_(4Q186)" title="Qumran "Horoscopes" (4Q186)">Horoscopes (4Q186)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Ezekiel" title="Pseudo-Ezekiel">Pseudo-Ezekiel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rule_of_the_Blessing" title="The Rule of the Blessing">Rule of the Blessing (1QSb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Rule_of_the_Congregation" title="The Rule of the Congregation">Rule of the Congregation (1QSa)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Samuel_Scroll" title="The Samuel Scroll">Samuel Scroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Seekers_After_Smooth_Things" title="The Seekers After Smooth Things">The Seekers After Smooth Things</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songs_of_the_Sabbath_Sacrifice" title="Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice">Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (4Q400–407)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/4Q510%E2%80%93511" title="4Q510–511">Songs of the Sage (4Q510–511)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_Scroll" title="Temple Scroll">Temple Scroll (11Q19)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_Hymns" title="Thanksgiving Hymns">Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Messiah" title="The War of the Messiah">The War of the Messiah/The Pierced Messiah Text (4Q285/11Q14)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Sons_of_Light_Against_the_Sons_of_Darkness" title="War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness">War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness (1QM)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#F8D810;">Places</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qumran" title="Qumran">Qumran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qumran_Caves" title="Qumran Caves">Qumran Caves</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_manuscripts_from_Qumran_Cave_1" title="List of manuscripts from Qumran Cave 1">cave 1</a></li> <li><a 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of manuscripts from Qumran Cave 10">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_manuscripts_from_Qumran_Cave_11" title="List of manuscripts from Qumran Cave 11">11</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qumran_cemetery" title="Qumran cemetery">Qumran cemetery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ein_Feshkha" title="Ein Feshkha">Ein Feshkha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kohlit" title="Kohlit">Kohlit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secacah" title="Secacah">Secacah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadi_Murabba%27at" title="Wadi Murabba'at">Wadi Murabba'at</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#F8D810;">Issues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Essenes" title="Essenes">Essenes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadducees" title="Sadducees">Sadducees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carbon_dating_the_Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Carbon dating the Dead Sea 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