Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Qumran Cave 4 v.9 (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Qumran Cave 4 v.9 This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in a cave at Qumran. It contains six biblical manuscripts written in the ancient palaeo-Hebrew script, four Septuagint manuscripts and five hitherto unknown compositions.
Full description- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Published: 22 April 1993
- Format: Hardback 264 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Palaeography (history Of Writing) | Literary Essays | History Of Religion | Biblical Studies & Exegesis | Judaism | Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts
- ISBN 13: 9780198263289 ISBN 10: 0198263287
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Full description for Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Qumran Cave 4 v.9
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 also five 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 most extensive 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 the Judaean Desert volumes is provided, and there are also forty pages of plates from the manuscripts.
