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The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition Florentino García Martínez Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Editors BRILL The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition This page intentionally left blank The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition edited by Florentino García Martínez & Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar brill leiden new york köln 1999 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Die Deutsche Bibliothek – CIP-Einheitsaufnahme The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition / ed. by Florentino García Martínez and Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. – Leiden ; New York ; Köln : Brill Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is also available. © Copyright 1997 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. 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Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands Dedicated to Adam S. van der Woude This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Foreword........................................................................................... ix Preface to the Second Edition........................................................... xiii Abbreviations.................................................................................... xv Key to Symbols................................................................................. xxii Text and Translation 1Q1–11Q31.................................................... 1 Index of Manuscripts........................................................................ 1311 Index of Titles................................................................................... 1325 Index of Cave 1 Manuscripts without Serial Numbers..................... 1360 Index of Manuscripts not found near Qumran.................................. 1361 vii This page intentionally left blank FOREWORD This book is intended as a practical tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collec- tion of Dead Sea Scrolls. As such, it is primarily intended for classroom use and for the benefit of specialists from other disciplines (scholars working on the He- brew Bible, the New Testament or Rabbinic literature, specialists on Semitic lan- guages, on the History of Judaism or on the History of Religions, among others) who need a reliable compendium of all the relevant materials found in this collec- tion. As such, it is not intended to compete with, let alone to replace, the editio princeps of the materials published in the series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert or outside this series, or the preliminary publications of materials which have not yet appeared in the DJD Series. The plates printed in the critical edi- tions, as well as the transcriptions, translations and commentaries of the first edi- tors are, and will always remain, the basis of all serious work on the Scrolls. Whereas the evidence of the biblical manuscripts from Qumran will be shortly available in The Qumran Bible by E. Ulrich, this book offers a fresh transcription and an English translation of all the relevant non-biblical texts found at Qumran, arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11. By biblical scrolls we under- stand here the copies of the books that subsequently emerged as the traditional Hebrew Bible, as well as the remains of tefillin and mezuzot which only contain quotations of those biblical books. In several cases the distinction between bibli- cal and non-biblical texts is not clear-cut. Thus, the so-called Reworked Penta- teuch consists mainly of the biblical text of the pentateuchal books, be it some- times in a different order, but also has some sections with material that is not included in the Hebrew Bible; likewise, we have included the non-biblical psalms from the Psalms Scrolls 4Q88, 11Q5 and 11Q6. Not included are the scant re- mains of Ben Sira from Cave 2. The inclusion in the edition of these ‘additions’ does not imply a judgment on their ‘biblical’ or ‘non-biblical’ character. In three cases we have included texts not found at Qumran, but related to manuscripts from Qumran; this goes for the remains of the mediaeval copies of the Damascus Document and the Aramaic Levi Document found in the Cairo Genizah, and for the copy of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice recovered at Masada. The transcriptions of the material included in this edition are fresh transcriptions made by the authors, though it is a very pleasant duty to recognize the debt to all previous work by teachers and colleagues. Our transcriptions rely not only on the identification and placement of the many tens of thousands of fragments achieved by the original editors of the non-biblical scrolls, who arranged the frag- ments for the photographs made by the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the ix
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