Between Scroll and Codex? Reconsidering the Qumran Opisthographs

Brooke, George J.; Aitken, James K.; Dell, Katharine J.; Mastin, Brian A.

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“…So, in this study, the manuscript that is called 4Q491a includes 11,12,13,14,15,18,22,24,25,26,27,28,31,32,33,and 35. The fragments are made of skin of average thickness. The light beige color of the material is here and there darkened.…”

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“…34 Baillet, DJD 7:12; Abegg, "The War Scroll," 3, 12. 35 Abegg, "The War Scroll," 1. 36 Davis, "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Colour: Re-Imag(in)ing the Shape and Contents of 4QMa" (available through www.academia.edu).…”

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“…Johannes van der Ploeg and André Dupont-Sommer both translated the text into French and published their translations in journals.31 Slightly later, van der Ploeg published a monograph on the text with a revised translation.32 At that stage, questions concerning repetitions and internal discrepancies of the scroll had aroused interest,33 and in his book van der Ploeg presented a list of reasons why he did not believe in the coherence of 1QM.34 He concluded that there had been a primitive version of 1QM which was then enlarged by a redactor. 35 For many questions, van der Ploeg pinned his hopes on the Cave 4 fragments, which he already knew to exist but were not yet published.36 At the same time, in the 1950s, Claus-Hunno Hunzinger 30 Yadin, The Scroll of the War, 4. 31…”

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“…Introduction had offered the first glimpse of the Cave 4 War Text fragments and introduced his idea that the Cave 4 War Text manuscripts could provide evidence of different redactional stages or different recensions with regard to the Cave 1 manuscript. 37 The edition of the ensemble of 4QM manuscripts had been entrusted to Hunzinger but he left the task quite quickly and was later replaced by Maurice Baillet. The completion of the publication eluded scholars until the 1980s but changing the editor was not the only reason for its delay; the material proved to be demanding in many ways38 and determining the correct order of the fragments is a continuing challenge.39 While the publication of the Cave 4 fragments was delayed, the study of 1QM continued.…”

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“…53 Cf., e.g., Duhaime, The War Texts, 40: "… 1QM remains the most comprehensive copy of a War Text…." 54 Duhaime,The War Texts,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] Cf., e.g., Duhaime, The War Texts, 33: "Copies of this poetic composition (i.e., the "Self-Glorification Hymn") were identified among fragments of three different manuscripts of Hymns…." 56 Schultz, Conquering the World, 37-39.…”

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War Traditions from the Qumran Caves

Vanonen¹

2022

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Title: War traditions from the Qumran caves : re-thinking textual stability and fluidity in the war text manuscripts / Hanna Vanonen. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; volume 139 | Revision of author's thesis. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: "In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Seferha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts as material artifacts. Vanonen demonstrates that studying the stability and instability of the War traditions does more justice to the complex material than a traditional chronological literary-critical model. In addition, Vanonen argues that at least liturgical use and study purposes may have created needs for producing different manuscripts that were simultaneously important"-Provided by publisher.

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2022

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The Qumran Opisthographic Papyri as a Scribal Cluster of Manuscripts

Aksu

2023

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This essay will explore to which the degree the opisthographic papyri from Qumran can be seen as a scribal cluster, which I understand to be a group of manuscripts that were produced and/or circulated within the same scribal context. This contribution will present a case study by focusing on the papyrus opisthographs 4Q433a/4Q255, 4Q499/4Q497, 4Q503/4Q512, and 4Q509/4Q496/4Q506. These manuscripts will be considered by combining material and textual approaches. Analysis from the perspective of palaeography and codicology will establish if these scrolls share significant material features, such as writing style, columnisation, and scribal markings. Textual analysis will assess the intertextual relations between these compositions and explore whether they share common themes and vocabulary. This case study aims to increase our understanding of how the scribes behind the Dead Sea Scrolls engaged with their texts, and explores different scholarly approaches to reconstruct ancient groupings of texts.

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Between Scroll and Codex? Reconsidering the Qumran Opisthographs

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