Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XII. Qumran Cave 4: VII

Genesis to Numbers

Frank Moore Cross editor James R Davila editor Eugene Ulrich editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th Mar '95

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Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume XII. Qumran Cave 4: VII cover

This volume inaugurates the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls written in the Jewish (or `square') script that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains twenty-six manuscripts of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millenium what had previously been considered the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts in the original language. They document a pluriformity acceptable in the ancient biblical textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and helps to illumine the historical and theological relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans. Superior textual variants from these manuscripts have been adopted in recent revised translations of the Bible.

The editors should be thanked for presenting some of the evidence of this `Qumran Bible' in a careful and clear manner. * Journal of Theological Studies *

ISBN: 9780198263654

Dimensions: 320mm x 240mm x 26mm

Weight: 1470g

288 pages