Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Dead Sea Discoveries
Angaben zur Quelle:
30,3 (2023) 213-234
Keywords:
Dead Sea scrolls. Criticism, Textual
;
Bible. Versions
;
Dead Sea scrolls
Abstract:
Four manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 are identified as manuscripts that constitute a collection of excerpts from Deuteronomy: 4Q37, 4Q38, 4Q41, and 4Q44. This paper focuses on 4Q37 and its contribution to understanding the larger group of Deuteronomy-excerpted texts. Based on material reconstruction of the scroll, the paper confirms that it originally included excerpts from both Deuteronomy and Exodus. This conclusion establishes the existence of a repertoire of scriptural sections that were selected and cited in special-use—probably liturgical—texts. The broader implications for the reception history of the Pentateuch in Second Temple times is that the Pentateuch was not conceptualized solely as a legal code or intellectual text but also as a text that was used in liturgy.
DOI:
10.1163/15685179-bja10045
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