The Temple Scroll 11Q19, 11Q20, 11Q21, 4Q524, 5Q21 with 4Q365a

534 Pages·2021·5.018 MB·English

by  Lawrence H. Schiffman, New York University and Andrew D. Gross, Catholic University of America

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The Temple Scroll
11Q19,11Q20,11Q21,4Q524,5Q21with4Q365aand4Q365frag.23
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LawrenceH.Schiffman
AndrewD.Gross
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Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
ListofPhotographsandFigures xi
AbbreviationsandSigla xii
Introduction 1
Texts,Translations,CriticalApparatus,Commentary
LawrenceH.SchiffmanandAndrewD.GrosswithAbrahamJ.Berkovitz,Samuel
Berkovitz,andMichaelRand
11Q19(11QTempleScrolla) 20
11Q20(11QTempleScrollb) 196
11Q21(11QTempleScrollc) 230
4Q365a(4QTempleScrolla?) 234
4Q365frag.23(4QReworkedPentateuchc) 240
4Q524(4QTempleScrollb) 242
5Q21(5QTempleScroll) 254
CatalogueofPhotographs 256
AndrewD.Gross
Concordance 275
MartinG.Abegg,Jr.withPatrickAngiolillo,ChristopherH.Johnson,andAlexandra
Lupu
Bibliography:ResearchontheTempleScroll 483
MarleneR.SchiffmanwithSamuelBerkovitz
IndexofSources 512
MarleneR.Schiffman

Preface
The research presented in this volume has a long and complex Noeditioncaneverbethefinalwordonagiventext,andthe
history and is the result of fruitful cooperation and collabora- presenteditionaimstoprovidethefoundationonwhichfuture
tion between quite a number of people. The project to create researchontheTempleScrollcanbebuilt.Asourcommentary
thetexteditionsthatarethecenterpieceofthisvolumebeganin cannot hope to summarize all the important research done on
1997whenLawrenceH.Schiffmanconsultedwithtwoofhisthen these manuscripts nor to deal with their attendant problems,
graduatestudents,AndrewD.GrossandMichaelRand,aboutthe we have included a comprehensive bibliography of published
possibility of producing a new edition of the Temple Scroll. It researchontheTempleScrollfromitsinitialdiscoveryandpubli-
wasintendedthattheeditionwouldmaximizerestorations,make cationuptothepresent.ThisresourcewascompiledbyMarlene
useofallthemanuscriptevidence,andincludeatextualappara- Schiffman, who mined numerous sources, languages, and types
tus comparing the text of the scroll to Dead Sea Scrolls biblical of literature.Itislimitedtomaterialsthatdiscussthescrollina
manuscripts and the ancient versions where the Temple Scroll substantialmannerandomitssimplecitationsofthescrollinthe
text was based on biblical passages.The volume would include formofparallelsorothersuchshortmentionsthatdonotinclude
editionsandcriticalapparatusforallofthemanuscriptevidence helpfulinformation.Wehavealsoincorporatedacatalogofavail-
oftheTempleScrollaswellasforthecloselyrelated4Q365a,part ableTempleScrollphotographs.Asweattemptedtolocateand
ofawidertextentitledRewrittenPentateuch.Theapparatusalso consultallrelevantphotographsof thescroll,wefounditrather
would take note of differing readings that had appeared in the challenging to keep track of them. For ease of reference, Gross
excellentearliereditionsofthescroll.Thisturnedouttobeavery compiledacatalogofthesephotographs,andithasbeenincluded
extensiveprojectdoneoverseveralyears,andafterhavingmade heretosimilarlyaidthereader.Finally,wehavealsoincludeda
major contributions to the development of the textual edition key-word-in-context concordance that was prepared by Martin
andapparatus,RandmovedontotakeapositioninIsrael(and G.Abegg,Jr.
lateroneinEngland).Anothermajorturningpointintheproject We hope that this new edition of the Temple Scroll and the
occurred in 2011 when the online photographic resources from associatedresearchtoolswehaveprovidedwillstimulateanew
theIsraelMuseumandtheIsraelAntiquitiesAuthoritybecame roundof progressinthestudyof thisimportantdocument.Itis
available.Wealsobenefittedfromthedigitalversionsofthejws indeedaprivilegetobethefirstvolumeinthisnewseriesthatwe
series photographs that were graciously provided to us byWest expect will contribute greatly tothe ongoing study of the Dead
SemiticResearch.Aswecarefullyconsultedthesephotographsin SeaScrolls.
conjunction with the previously available images and included
more recent scholarship, the project attained a kind of matu-
rity.
Elements of this project have appeared in other forms over
the years. In 2011, a preliminary version of our 11Q19 edition
was published in the series The Dead Sea Scrolls: Hebrew, Ara-
maic,andGreekTextswithEnglishTranslations,editedbyJames
H.Charlesworth.Thatvolumeincludedtwoversionsof thisedi-
tion, one that conformed to the series’ general format, which
eschews textual reconstruction, and a “composite” edition that
featuredourmaximalreconstructionsbasedonmanuscriptevi-
denceandotherconsiderations.Thevolumealsoincludedsome
ofourdiscussionontherelationshipbetweenthevariousTemple
Scroll manuscripts and the difficulties involved in their recon-
struction. These preliminary editions have since been heavily
revised, having taken advantage of the abovementioned photo-
graphicresourcesthatbecameavailablesoonafterthepublica-
tion of the 2011 volume. An earlier version of the translation of
11Q19appearedintheJewishPublicationSociety’s2013publica-
tion Outside the Bible, and the translations in the present vol-
umehavebeenimprovedandrevisedtobebroughtintoagree-
mentwiththerevisionsinoureditionsof theHebrewtext.For
thatsameproject,Schiffmanhadcomposedashortcommentary
designedtoenablereaderstounderstandtheoften-fragmentary
textofthescroll.Thisinitialcommentaryhadbeenbasedonthe
researchinhisvolume,CourtyardsoftheHouseoftheLord:Stud-
iesintheTempleScroll.Thiscommentarywasdoubledinsizeand
revisedforpurposesofthisvolume.