Conquering the World

Unique in its genre and content, the "War Scroll (1QM)" presents a vision of an impending eschatological war. Although originally interpreted as being the product of a single author from the Qumran Sect, the composition's inconsistencies quickly led to the view that it is in fact an eclectic document with an elaborate compositional history. Yet all such theories were formulated prior to the publication of War Scroll-like texts from "Caves" 4 and 11. A careful re-examination of the War Scroll sug