DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: VIII



THE

GREEK MINOR PROPHETS SCROLL

FROM NAHAL HEVER

(8HevXIIgr)

(THE SEIYÂL COLLECTION I)

BY

EMANUEL TOV
HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM

WITH THE COLLABORATION OF
R. A. KRAFT

AND A CONTRIBUTION BY
P. J. PARSON



CLARENDON PRESS: OXFORD

1990


CONTENTS

PREFACE BY J. STRUGNELL

FOREWORD

ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGLA

A. INTRODUCTION
1. Archaeological data and identification
2. Columns and measurements
3. Contents and scope
4. Special characteristics
  a. Division into sense-units
  b. Tetragrammaton
5. The two scribes/hands
6. Description of the materials and their state of preservation (by Robert A. Kraft)
7. The scripts and their date (by Peter J. Parsons)

B. AND C. TRANSCRIPTIONS

D. NOTES ON PALAEOGRAPHY AND IDENTIFICATION

E. NOTES ON THE RECONSTRUCTIONS

F. TRANSLATION TECHNIQUE, ORTHOGRAPHIC PECULIARITIES AND TEXTUAL RELATIONS

G. INDEX

PLATES

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