Zum Zedern-Öl, damit hier keine neuen Baustellen iVm Ölung der Schriften aufgemacht werden:
"I am grateful to Michael Stone for discussing this with me, and for his paper, ‘The Cedar in Jewish Antiquity,’ read at the Talmudic Archaeology Conference, University College London, 22–4 June 2009. Stone noted that Romans used cedar or citron oil to prolong the longevity of manuscripts (Pliny, Nat. Hist. 13: 27 [84–7]; Horace, Ars. Poet. 331), since this oil or resin had strong anti-fungal and anti-bacterial agents...
As such, Qumran was a scroll burial centre in which the occupants fulfilled the commandment of Moses, as stated in the Testament of Moses 1:16–18. Here, Moses instructs Joshua, in Amman, east of the Jordan River: Receive, then, this writing to recall the protection of the books that I hand over to you, which you must order, and embalm with cedar oil, and place in earthenware jars in the location which He made from the beginning of the creation of the world, so that his Name may be called upon until the Day of Repentance, in respect to which the Lord will look at them (the books) in the fulfilment of the End of Days. "
(Taylor: The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea)
4 Königreiche zum Zweiten:
"Babylon and subsequent kingdoms will experience destruction, until, and inclusive of, the mighty and persistent fourth kingdom (the cedar), whose ruler will be executed on Mount Zion by the Messiah (39–40)."
(Lutz Doering: The Epistle of Baruch and Its Role in 2Baruch)
Zeder und das 4. Tier
"Shortly thereafter, the cedar also falls down, and the vine predicts its final destruction in the near future. ... The interpretation following the vision comes directly from God, and the angelus interpres is not present. The mountains and the forest mean four future kingdoms of which the cedar is the fourth; the spring represents the Messianic Age, and the vine is the Messiah. It is generally agreed that this picture of the four empires is based on the vision of Daniel 7 in which the fourth animal is an allusion to the Hellenistic powers.
(Balázs Tamási: Baruch as a Prophet in 2Baruch)
"Daniel transmits the symbolic meaning of the tree in Daniel4, the story of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. The angel commands that it be cut down (4:10–11, 20). There is every probability that the the two apocalyptic ideas are conflated in the so-called 4QFour Kingdoms text (4Q552–553)"
(Henze/Boccaccini, Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch - Reconstruction after the Fall)
"A parallel to Nebuchadnezzar’s dream is recorded in Ezekiel 31, where the Assyrian as well as the Egyptian Pharaoh are compared to a cedar of Lebanon. "
Walvoord/Dyer/Rawley, Daniel.