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Re: orion re: dss and aramaic
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 12:09:27 -0600
> To: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il
> From: djefferi@students.wisc.edu (Daryl F. Jefferies)
> Subject: Re: orion re: dss and aramaic
> Reply-to: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il
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> Jim West wrote:
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> >further, that the divine name is rendered in paleo-hebrew script in a number
> >of documents seems to indicate not only that the name was viewed as sacred-
> >but that it should not be pronounced. Now if a pesher were by chance picked
> >up by a "non-initiate" and they were, by chance, educated enought to read
> >it, then maybe the second line of defense was preciesly the hiding of the
> >divine name in a script no longer generally recognized. ???
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> Following this line of reaoning, how do we understand the presence of
> entire documents in paleo Hebrew (e.g., Exod.) along side (in cave 4)
> copies of the same book in the presumably more "readable" square script?
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> Did the use of paleo script indicate a particular dergee of reverence for
> the texts written in it?
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> Daryl Jefferies
> Madison, WI
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> Daryl Jefferies
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> A further problem is this: how can we be certain that scrolls
written in Aramaic, square script Hebrew and palaeo-Hebrew were
authored or copied either by a single group, or by a single group during a
single period in its development? Texts of (e.g.) Exodus and
Leviticus written in palaeo-Hebrew may be representative of a
particular stage in the Qumran sect's theological development.
James Harding
University of Sheffield