The following is a bibliography of publications (published between 1991 and 2012) on the so-called “Messianic Apocalypse” (Dead Sea Scroll 4Q521). It is partly based on the bibliographies in Evans, “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)”; Harlow, “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)”; and De Wit, “Expectations and the Expected One.” (For more literature on the Dead Sea Scrolls, see the bibliography of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.) 

Becker, Michael. “4Q521 und die Gesalbten.” Revue de Qumran 18 (1997): 73–96.

Bergmeier, Roland. “Beobachtungen zu 4Q521 f 2, II, 1–13.” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 145 (1995): 38–48.

Charlesworth, James H. “Prolegomenous Reflections towards a Taxonomy of Resurrection Texts (1QHa, 1En, 4Q521, Paul, Luke, the Fourth Gospel, and Psalm 30).” In The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity, and other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity, edited by Ian H. Henderson and Gerbern S. Oegema, Studien zu den jüdischen Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit 2, 237–64. Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2006.

Collins, John J. “Jesus, Messianism, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.” In Qumran-Messianism: Studies on the Messianic Expectations in the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by James H. Charlesworth, Hermann Lichtenberger, and Gerbern S. Oegema, 100–20, esp. 112–16. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998.

———. The Scepter and the Star: The Messiahs of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Other Ancient Literature. Anchor Bible Reference Library 20. New York: Doubleday, 1995. 117–22.

———. “The Works of the Messiah,” Dead Sea Discoveries 1 (1994): 98–112.

Duhaime, Jean “Le messie et les saints dans un fragment apocalyptique de Qumrân (4Q 521 2).” In Ce Dieu qui vient: Études sur l’Ancien et le Nouveau Testament offertes au Professeur Bernard Renaud à l’occasion de son soixante-cinquième anniversaire, edited by Raymond Kuntzmann, Lectio Divina 159, 265–73. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1995.

Eisenman, Robert H. “A Messianic Vision.” Biblical Archeology Review 17, no. 6 (1991), 65.

Evans, Craig. A. “‘Go and Tell John What You See and Hear’: Jesus, the Kingdom and 4Q521.” In Jars of Clay: The New Testament’s Use of the Old in Its Historical-Hermeneutical Milieu, edited by P. E. Enns. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan [year of publication unknown, announced in Evans, “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521)” as forthcoming].

———. “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521).” In Dictionary of New Testament Background, edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2000.

Eve, Eric. The Jewish Context of Jesus’ Miracles. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 231. London: Sheffield Academic, 2002. 189–96.

Harlow, Daniel C. “Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521).” In The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, edited by John J. Collins and Daniel C. Harlow, 937–38. Grand Rapids, MI Eerdmans, 2010.

Hogeterp, Albert L. A. “Belief in Resurrection and Its Religious Settings in Qumran and the New Testament.” In Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament, edited by Florentino García Martínez, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 85, 299–320. Leiden: Brill, 2009. DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004176966.i-350.73.

Hultgren, Stephen J. “4Q521 and Luke’s Magnificat and Benedictus.” In Echoes from the Caves: Qumran and the New Testament, edited by Florentino García Martínez, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 85, 119–32. Leiden: Brill, 2009. DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004176966.i-350.32.

———. “4Q521, the Second Benediction of the Tefilla, the ḥăsîdîm, and the Development of Royal Messianism.” Revue de Qumran 91[?] (2008): 313–40.

Justnes, Årnstein. The Time of Salvation: An Analysis of 4QApocryphon of Daniel ar (4Q246), 4QMessianic Apocalypse (4Q521 2), and 4QTime of Righteousness (4Q215a). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009.

Kvalbein, Hans, “Die Wunder der Endzeit: Beobachtungen zu 4Q521 und Matth 11,5p.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 88 (1997): 111-125.

———. “The Wonders of the End-Time: Metaphorical Language in 4Q521 and the Interpretation of Matthew 11.5 Par.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 18 (1998): 87–110.

Labahn, M. “The Significance of Signs in Luke 7:22–23 in the Light of Isaiah 61 and the Messianic Apocalypse.” In From Prophecy to Testament: The Function of the Old Testament in the New, edited by C. A. Evans, 146–68. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Miller, David M. “The Messenger, the Lord, and the Coming Judgement in the Reception History of Malachi 3.” New Testament Studies 53 (2007): 1–16. DOI: 10.1017/S002868850700001X.

Morganstern, Matthew. “A ‘Reconstructionist’ Approach to the Dead Sea scrolls: E. Puech’s Edition of Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXV.” Journal of Jewish Studies 55 (2004): 347–53.

Niebuhr, Karl-Wilhelm. “4Q521,2 II—Ein eschatologischer Psalm.” In Mogilany 1995, edited by Zdzislaw J. Kapera, 151–68. Kraków: Enigma, 1998.

———. “Die Werke des eschatologischen Freudenboten (4Q521 und die Jesusüberlieferung).” In The Scriptures in the Gospels, edited by Christopher M. Tuckett, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium 131, 637–46. Louvain: Peeters, 1997.

*Novakovic, Lidija. “4Q521: The Works of the Messiah or Signs of the Messianic Time?” In Qumran Studies: New Approaches, New Questions, edited by Michael Thomas Davis and Brent A. Strawn, 208–31. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007.

Philonenko, Marc. “Adonaï, le Messie et le Saoshyant: Observations nouvelles sur 4Q521.” Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses 82 (2002): 259–66.

———. “‘Les cieux et la terre obéiront à son Messie’: 4Q521, 2, II, 1 et Vie latine d’Adam et Ève, 29, 8.” Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses 82 (2002): 115–22.

———. “Le Vivificateur: Étude d’eschatologie comparée (de 4Q521 aux Actes de Thomas).” Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses 83 (2003): 61–69.

Puech, Émile. “Une apocalypse messianique (4Q521).” Revue de Qumran 15 (1992): 475–519.

———. La croyance des Esséniens en la vie future: Immortalité, résurrection, vie éternelle? Histoire d’une croyance dans le judaïsme ancien. 2 vols. Études bibliques, n.s., 22. Paris: Gabalda, 1993. 2:627–92.

———. “Les Esséniens et la vie future.” Le Monde de la Bible 4 (1978): 38–40.

———. “Messianic Apocalypse.” In Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by L. H. Schiffman and J. C. VanderKam, 1:543–44. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

———. “Messianism, Resurrection, and Eschatology at Qumran and in the New Testament.” In The Community of the Renewed Covenant: The Notre Dame Symposium on the Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by E. Ulrich and J. C. VanderKam, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity Series 10, 235–56. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

———. Qumran Cave 4.XVIII: Textes hébreux (4Q521–4Q528, 4Q576–4Q579). Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 25. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998. 1–39 + plates i-iii.

———. “Some Remarks on 4Q246 and 4Q521 and Qumran Messianism.” In The Provo International Conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls: Technological Innovations, New Texts, and Reformulates Issues, edited by Donald W. Parry and Eugene Ulrich, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 30, 545–65. Leiden: Brill 1999.

Stettler, Hanna. “Die Bedeutung der Täuferanfrage in Matthäus 11,2-6 par Lk 7,18-23 für die Christologie.” Biblica 89 (2008): 173-200. http://www.bsw.org/Biblica/Vol-89-2008.

Tabor, James D. and Michael O. Wise. “4Q521 ‘On Resurrection’ and the Synoptic Gospel Tradition: A Preliminary Study.” Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 10 (1992): 149–62. = ‘On Resurrection’ and the Synoptic Gospel Tradition: A Preliminary Study.” In Qumran Questions, edited by James H. Charlesworth, The Biblical Seminar 36, 151–63. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Vermes, Geza. “Qumran Forum Miscellanea I.” Journal for Jewish Studies 43 (1992): 299–305.

Wit, Willem J. de. “Expectations and the Expected One: 4Q521 and the Light It Sheds on the New Testament.” Doctoraalscriptie (master’s thesis), Utrecht University, 2000.

Wise, Michael O., and James D. Tabor, “The Messiah at Qumran” and “The Messiah Text: 4Q521 and a Line-by-Line Analysis,” Biblical Archaeology Review 18, no. 6 (1992).

Wold, Benjamin. “Agency and Raising the Dead in 4QPseudo-Ezekiel and 4Q521 2 ii.” Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche 103 (2012): 1–19. DOI: 10.1515/znw-2012-0001.

Xeravits, Geza G. King, Priest, Prophet: Positive Eschatological Protagonists of the Qumran Library. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 47. Leiden: Brill, 2003. 98–109.

Zimmermann, Johannes. Messianische Texte aus Qumran: Königliche, priesterliche und prophetische Messiasvorstellungen in den Schriftfunden von Qumran. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/104. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998.