The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Vol 1 & 2)

1388 Pages·1999·3.91 MB·English

by  Florentino Garcia Martinez

The Dead Sea Scrolls
Study Edition
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
Study Edition
edited by
Florentino García Martínez
&
Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar
brill
leiden new york köln
1999
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Die Deutsche Bibliothek – CIP-Einheitsaufnahme
The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition / ed. by Florentino García
Martínez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. – Leiden ; New York ; Köln :
Brill
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CONTENTS
Foreword........................................................................................... ix
Preface to the Second Edition........................................................... xiii
Abbreviations.................................................................................... xv
Key to Symbols................................................................................. xxii
Text and Translation 1Q1–11Q31.................................................... 1
Index of Manuscripts........................................................................ 1311
Index of Titles................................................................................... 1325
Index of Cave 1 Manuscripts without Serial Numbers..................... 1360
Index of Manuscripts not found near Qumran.................................. 1361
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FOREWORD
This book is intended as a practical tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collec-
tion of Dead Sea Scrolls. As such, it is primarily intended for classroom use and
for the benefit of specialists from other disciplines (scholars working on the He-
brew Bible, the New Testament or Rabbinic literature, specialists on Semitic lan-
guages, on the History of Judaism or on the History of Religions, among others)
who need a reliable compendium of all the relevant materials found in this collec-
tion. As such, it is not intended to compete with, let alone to replace, the editio
princeps of the materials published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean
Desert or outside this series, or the preliminary publications of materials which
have not yet appeared in the DJD Series. The plates printed in the critical edi-
tions, as well as the transcriptions, translations and commentaries of the first edi-
tors are, and will always remain, the basis of all serious work on the Scrolls.
Whereas the evidence of the biblical manuscripts from Qumran will be shortly
available in The Qumran Bible by E. Ulrich, this book offers a fresh transcription
and an English translation of all the relevant non-biblical texts found at Qumran,
arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11. By biblical scrolls we under-
stand here the copies of the books that subsequently emerged as the traditional
Hebrew Bible, as well as the remains of tefillin and mezuzot which only contain
quotations of those biblical books. In several cases the distinction between bibli-
cal and non-biblical texts is not clear-cut. Thus, the so-called Reworked Penta-
teuch consists mainly of the biblical text of the pentateuchal books, be it some-
times in a different order, but also has some sections with material that is not
included in the Hebrew Bible; likewise, we have included the non-biblical psalms
from the Psalms Scrolls 4Q88, 11Q5 and 11Q6. Not included are the scant re-
mains of Ben Sira from Cave 2. The inclusion in the edition of these ‘additions’
does not imply a judgment on their ‘biblical’ or ‘non-biblical’ character. In three
cases we have included texts not found at Qumran, but related to manuscripts
from Qumran; this goes for the remains of the mediaeval copies of the Damascus
Document and the Aramaic Levi Document found in the Cairo Genizah, and for
the copy of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice recovered at Masada.
The transcriptions of the material included in this edition are fresh transcriptions
made by the authors, though it is a very pleasant duty to recognize the debt to all
previous work by teachers and colleagues. Our transcriptions rely not only on the
identification and placement of the many tens of thousands of fragments
achieved by the original editors of the non-biblical scrolls, who arranged the frag-
ments for the photographs made by the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the
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