Lamadyahu Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Shalom to everyone here on the forum. I have a question concerning books found at Qumran. I have purchased the Dead Sea Scroll software for accordance. As I was review them, I could not find two book or scrolls, which are the book of Debariym or Deuteronomy and the Joshua. Can anyone help me find a image or digitized copy of these two sefers. I can see accordance shows them in the modern Hebrew form, but I am looking to find them in its original form and I saw on the discovery channel, that their was a Paleo Hebrew copy of Joshua. Can anyone help me on this matter? Shalom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpkang Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Shalom! You must understand that there are not many continuous leaves of either of these books (unlike the "great" Isaiah Scroll); what survive are many, many fragments. Accordance offers some great tools for working with the Qumran corpus. See this article by Martin Abegg, Jr. and note especially the Qumran Index and the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, whose copious and clearly written notes are invaluable for understanding the extent and differences between textual witnesses. For Joshua, there is only (to my knowledge and based on the Qumran Index module), one Joshua text written in Paleo-Hebrew, 4Q123 (also called 4QpaleoParaJosh), a very fragmentary text, which appears to be a paraphrase of Joshua 21, so it does not even appear to be a (proto-)Masoretic text. The Qumran Index provides the bibliography: P. W. Skehan et al, DJD IX, 201–203. Plate XLVI. The Discovery Channel is probably overstating the evidence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamadyahu Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 Shalom! You must understand that there are not many continuous leaves of either of these books (unlike the "great" Isaiah Scroll); what survive are many, many fragments. Accordance offers some great tools for working with the Qumran corpus. See this article by Martin Abegg, Jr. and note especially the Qumran Index and the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, whose copious and clearly written notes are invaluable for understanding the extent and differences between textual witnesses. For Joshua, there is only (to my knowledge and based on the Qumran Index module), one Joshua text written in Paleo-Hebrew, 4Q123 (also called 4QpaleoParaJosh), a very fragmentary text, which appears to be a paraphrase of Joshua 21, so it does not even appear to be a (proto-)Masoretic text. The Qumran Index provides the bibliography: P. W. Skehan et al, DJD IX, 201 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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