Endnote 1 – The Bones of Qumran

The late midrashic collection of rabbinic commentaries on Psalms cites a tradition in the name of the third-century C.E. Rabbi Isaac regarding Psalm 102:18: “[King] David had in mind [future] generations that will have neither prophet, nor priest, nor teacher of righteousness [moreh tzedek] nor Holy Temple to atone for them.”