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Re: Daniel MSS
Sigrid Peterson wrote:
> According to Peter Flint, replying to a query from Cleon Rogers:
>
> > Seven of these manuscripts seem to have contained the entire book of
> > Daniel in a form very much like that preserved in the received Masoretic
> > Text, although readings for individual words may differ on occasion.
>
> his is interesting, since according to private e-mail from Fred Cryer,
> Daniel 11 and 12 are not extant at Qumran. Can you or someone else
> explicitly disconfirm this, as Fred may have been writing from
> impressions or knowledge based on earlier information about published
> material at Qumran, and would not have realized that such information is
> important to my research.
Harold Scanlin, in _The Dead Sea Scrolls and Modern Translations of
the Old Testament_ (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1993), lists the
following portions of Daniel 11 extant in Qumran mss:
11:1-2, 13-17, 25-29 in 4QDan-c
11:13-16 in 4QDan-a
11:33-36, 38 in 6QpapDan
He also lists portions extant from chapters 1 through 8 and 10.
Since his index was based on publications available at the time he
wrote the book, he does not report the contents of 4QDan-d or
4QDan-e. He does report for 1QDan-a, 4QDan-a,b,c, and 6QpapDan.
All the best,
Richard Weis
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