DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: IX



Qumran Cave 4

IV



PALAEO-HEBREW AND GREEK BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS


By

PATRICK W. SKEHAN

The Catholic University of America


EUGENE ULRICH

Univeristy of Notre Dame

and

JUDITH E. SANDERSON

Princeton Theological Seminary


With a contribution by
P. J. Parsons

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1992



CONTENTS

TABLE OF PLATES

FOREWORD

ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA

INTRODUCTION
The System of Naming and Numbering the Qumran Scrolls
Archaeological Provenance and Dating
Introductions to the Individual Editions
Transcriptions, Notes, and Variants
Photographs and Plates
The Palaeography and Date of the Greek Manuscripts (by P. J. Parsons)
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I. BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS

A. PALAEO-HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS
11. 4QpaleoGenesis-Exodus l (Pls. I-VI)
12. 4QpaleoGenesis m (Pl. VI)
22. 4QpaleoExodus m (Pls. VII-XXXIII)
45. 4QpaleoDeuteronomy r (Pls. XXXIV-XXXVI)
46. 4QpaleoDeuteronomy s (Pl. XXXVII)
101. 4QpaleoJob c (Pl. XXXVII)

B. SEPTUAGINT MANUSCRIPTS
119. 4QLXXLeviticus a (Pl. XXXVIII)
120. pap4QLXXLeviticus b (Pls. XXXIX-XLI)
121. 4QLXXNumbers (Pls. XLII-XLIII)
122. 4QLXXDeuteronomy (Pl. XLIII)

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II. PARABIBLICAL TEXTS


A. PALAEO-HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS
123. 4QpaleoParaJoshua (Pl. XLVI)
124. 4QpaleoUnidentified (1) (Pls. XLIV-XLV)
125. 4QpaleoUnidentified (2) ((Pl. XLVI)

B. GREEK MANUSCRIPTS
126. 4QUnidentified gr (Pl. XLVI)
127 pap4QParaExodus gr (Pl. XLVII)

INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES

INDEX OF THE CONTENTS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS

INDEX OF HEBREW WORDS IN UNIDENTIFIED FRAGMENTS

INDEX OF GREEK WORDS IN UNIDENTIFIED FRAGMENTS

PLATES

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I-XLVII

TABLE OF PLATES

I.




II-V.

VI.


VII-XXXIII.

XXXIV-XXXVI.

XXXVII.


XXXVIII.

XXXIX-XLI.

XLII.

XLIII.


XLIV-XLV.

XLVI.



XLVII.

Professor Skehan identifying the tens of thousands of fragments in the Rockefeller Museum
11. 4QpaleoGen-Exod l

11. 4QpaleoGen-Exod l

11. 4QpaleoGen-Exod l
12. 4QpaleoGen m

22. 4QpaleoExod m

45. 4QpaleoDeut g

46. 4QpaleoDeut s
101. 4QpaleoJob c

119. 4QLxxLev a

120. pap4QLXXLev b

121. 4QLXXNum

121. 4QLXXNum
122. 4QLXXDeut

124. 4QpaleoUnid (1)

123. 4QpaleoParaJosh
125. 4QpaleoUnid (s)
126. 4QUnid gr

127. pap4QParaExod gr