4Q246 (4QApocryphon of Daniel ar) 4Q521 (4QMessianic Apocalypse) and 4Q215a (4QTime of
Righteousness) are among the newer texts from Qumran Cave 4 that are of relatively recent
publication. All three texts share an interest in eschatology and more specifically in the
time of salvation. Two of them 4Q246 and 4Q521 are among the most debated texts from the
Qumran library chiefly because they are assumed to have significant and substantial parallels
to texts in the New Testament. The main aim of the thesis is a separate and detailed analysis
of the three texts. More substantially this analysis aims at presenting improved textual
editions of each of the texts with new readings critically examine and evaluate scholars'
attempts to restore the texts' fragmentary parts and writing detailed commentaries on the
texts. On the basis of this detailed treatment of the three texts the images they present of
the time of salvation are compared in a synthetic presentation.
