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Psalms to chronicles

by Eugene Ulrich ... [et al.]

(Discoveries in the Judaean desert, 16 . Qumran cave 4 ; 11)

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 2000

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Qumran cave 4

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Includes indexes

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Description

This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been considered the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts in the original language. They document a pluriformity that characterized the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became uniform later in the Rabbinic period. The Book of Psalms was the most widely copied book at Qumran, and the manuscripts display some alternate arrangements. The Song of Songs also displays a version that contrasts in arrangement of contents with the edition found in the traditional Massoretic Text. Superior textual variants from these manuscripts have been adopted in recent revised translations of the Bible.

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  • NCID
    BA50077361
  • ISBN
    • 0198269439
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    engheb
  • Place of Publication
    Oxford,New York ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 302 p., xxxviii p. of plates
  • Size
    32 cm
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