The Damascus Document explicitly remembers the Israelite wilderness period as a time of disobedience and rebellion, with dire consequences that endured for generations. At the same time, the same text calls for a communal organization that mimics that of the Israelites during their wilderness period (Exod. 18.25; Deut. 1.15). This appeal to an imperfect past in a document that faces an imminent or even present eschaton finds close parallels among other texts from the latter half of the Second Temple period. This article argues that these similar strategies of remembering and re-deploying the past shed light on possible motivations for the Damascus Document's seemingly incoherent approach to Israel's past.

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关于呼吁现在不完善的过去的呼吁：记住第二圣殿时期后期的以色列人荒野一代

大马士革文件明确地记得以色列人的旷野时期是不服从和叛乱的时期，其可怕的后果世世代代。同时，同一文本要求建立一个模仿以色列人旷野时期的公共组织（出埃及记18.25；申命记1.15）。在面对即将到来甚至现在的演讲的文件中，这种不完善的过去的诉求与第二圣殿时期后半期的其他案文有着相似的相似之处。本文认为，这些类似的记忆和重新部署过去的策略为大马士革文件对以色列过去的看似不连贯的态度提供了可能的动机。