DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: VOLUME XIV. QUMRAN CAVE 4: IX by Eugene C. Ulrich (Editor), Frank Moore Cross (Editor), Sidnie White Crawford (Editor) ( 9780198263661 )

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DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: VOLUME XIV. QUMRAN CAVE 4: IX
DEUTERONOMY, JOSHUA, JUDGES, KINGS

By:

Eugene C. Ulrich (Editor), Frank Moore Cross (Editor), Sidnie White Crawford (Editor)

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

28 March, 1996

Series:

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XIV

Pages:

206

Description:

This definitive scholarly edition continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains twenty-four manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings, antedating previous Hebrew texts by a millenium. The scrolls are valuable witnesses to the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical text and have been used for recent revised translation of the Bible.

Synopsis:

This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains twenty-four Hebrew manuscripts of the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, and Kings. These texts antedate by a millennium those that had previously held the title of the earliest surviving Hebrew biblical manuscripts. They document a pluriformity acceptable in the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became standardized later in the Christian and Rabbinic period. Some of the scrolls (e.g. 4QDeut, 4QDeut) are not properly manuscripts of biblical books but rather contain excerpts from biblical books, compiled probably for liturgical purposes. 4QJosh, the oldest extant manuscript of that book, displays a different sequence of episodes concerning the first altar built in the newly entered land. Similarly, 4QJudg attests to an early text of Judges without a lengthy Deuteronomistic insertion now found in the textus receptus. Superior textual variants from these manuscripts have been adopted in recent revised translations of the Bible.

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37 pp black and white plates, tables

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Clarendon Press

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