Some scholars postulated that Ezra does actually appear in the scrolls as the cryptically named “teacher of righteousness.” Others identified this mysterious figure with Nehemiah. See, e.g., Theodor H. Gaster, The Scriptures of the Dead Sea Sect in English Translation (London: Secker Warburg, 1957), p. 108; Isaac Rabinowitz, “A Reconsideration of ‘Damascus’ and ‘390 Years’ in the ‘Damascus’ (‘Zadokite’) Fragments,” Journal of Biblical Literature 73 (1954), pp. 11#8211;35.
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