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CHAPTER 9 – THE TORAH SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA AREA Approaching the Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls The question of how to tre ...

and contains the biblical scrolls from Masada, Murabba‘at, Naḥal Ḥever and Wadi Sdeir. This division of the evidence allows Youn ...

on the one hand, and the uniformly replicated MT-type biblical texts attested at Masada on the other hand, Young suggests that c ...

tative and non-authoritative text-types posited by Saul Lieberman,^709 which relies on evi- dence found in the later Talmudic so ...

cal scrolls, Lieberman points to various other types of biblical texts that would have cir- culated in parallel with this ‘offic ...

up in the Temple.’^715 Likewise, sections of the Talmudic literature point to official scrolls that were kept in the Temple, the ...

therefore seems that scrolls of the ήκριβωμένα type were not in absolute agreement, or were not the only text-type kept in the t ...

as a source of authoritative literature.^722 It would seem that these texts adhered least rig- idly to the ‘standard copy par ex ...

and the relative paucity of scribal intervention (less than once every 20 lines).^723 Accord- ing to this conceptualisation most ...

Tov, and those ήκριβωμένα type scrolls as described by Lieberman. However, it remains that most of the large format ‘de luxe’ sc ...

Evidence for variation within ήκριβωμένα texts is purely inferential, and the same must be said of evidence for the exactitude w ...

“And everyone whose [eye]s are dim or [...] and everyone that is not quick to un[der]stand, and everyone wh[ose tongue] is curse ...

The above discussion suggests that when looking at the evidence from the scrolls discov- ered in the Judaean Desert we must proc ...

alert us to anything, it should be that the dating of scrolls from the Judaean Desert, using palaeographical evidence that is un ...

texts (in the case of carefully produced documents) during the late Second Temple period in Jewish Palestine. The Sites There is ...

The Archaeology of Khirbet Qumran Khirbet Qumran sits atop a marl terrace close to the north-western shoreline of the Dead Sea. ...

lower level and the initiation of the higher one. And, since this explanation is in accordance with the his- torical data, it ac ...

The Connection Between Khirbet Qumran and the Scrolls Found Nearby According to de Vaux, there is a clear link between the site ...

ceptance, both because of the material culture, and because of the feeling that the inhabi- tants of Qumran must have been aware ...

site’s inhabitants (loci 91 and 110), almost half of the water capacity at Qumran was held in ritual baths.^742 In fact, ten of ...