The Historical Provenance of the “Three Nets of Belial” Allusion in the Zadokite Document and Balla’/Bela’ in the Temple Scroll,

Interpreting some Esotericisms: The King of the Peoples, the Princes of Judah and Gehazi in the Damascus Document. Paper given to the Society of Biblical Literature in 1989. Folia Orientalia, volume 25, 1988. (First given as an NEH Fellow at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in a Joint Session with the Ecole Biblique in November, 1985.)

The Historical Provenance of the Three Nets of Belial Allusion in the Zadokite Document and Balla Bela in the Temple Scroll