Emanuel Tov

P. J. Parsons

This book contains a new version of the scroll that represents an early revision of the Septuagint toward a closer correspondence with the Hebrew text of the Bible. After an extensive introduction, the volume provides the text with and without reconstructions, notes on palaeography and reconstructions, and a commentary on translation technique, orthographic peculiarities, and textual relations.

The Seiyal Collection I

The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8Hevxiigr)

Patrick W. Skehan

Patrick William Skehan

Eugene Ulrich

Judith E. Sanderson

This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains ten biblical manuscripts from Genesis to Deuteronomy and Job. Six are written in the ancient Palaeo-Hebrew script and four are in Greek. There are alsofive hitherto unknown compositions. The Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been the earliest surviving biblical codices in the original language, and they document the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became standardized. The mostextensive and significant manuscript, 4QpaleoExodm, exhibits the expanded textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and illumines the historical and theological relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans. Fragments of an unidentified Greek text mention Moses,Pharaoh, and Egypt, suggesting some development of the Exodus theme, and further witnessing to the rich religious literature to which Rabbinic Judaism and nascent Christianity were heirs. An index of all the biblical manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 and their distribution in other Discoveries in theJudaean Desert volumes is provided, and there are also forty pages of plates from the manuscripts.

P. J. Parsons

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