DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: VOLUME XVI: PSALMS TO CHRONICLES by Eugene C. Ulrich (Editor) ( 9780198269434 )

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DISCOVERIES IN THE JUDAEAN DESERT: VOLUME XVI: PSALMS TO CHRONICLES
QUMRAN CAVE 4.XI

By:

Eugene C. Ulrich (Editor)

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 November, 2000

Series:

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XVI

Pages:

320

Language:

English, French, Hebrew, Arabic

Description:

This volume continues the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran Cave 4. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings, or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles, antedating previous Hebrew manuscripts by a millennium. The scrolls are valuable witnesses to the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical text and have been used for recent revised translations of the Bible

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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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38pp halftone plates

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Clarendon Press

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