The End of Roman Rule
1For the In[structor: The Rule of] the War. The first attack by the sons of light will be launched against the lot of the sons of darkness, against the army of Belial, against the band of Edom and of Moab and of the sons of Ammon 2and [ . . . ] Philistia, and against the bands of the Kittim of Ashur, who are being helped by the violators of the…
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, the War Scroll describes a war between the sons of light and the sons of darkness, identified as the king of the Kittim and the whole host of Belial (Satan, the Prince of Darkness). In the Dead Sea Scrolls, the term Kittim (derived from a place-name for an Aegean island, possibly Cyprus) serves as a code word for Romans.
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