Qumran Cave 4: XVI: Psalms to Chronicles (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198269434)

This volume continues the publication of the series of biblical Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains forty-two manuscripts of the Writings or Wisdom Books, from Psalms to Chronicles. These Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been considered the earliest surviving biblical manuscripts in the original language. They document a pluriformity that characterized the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became uniform later in the Rabbinic period. The Book of Psalms was the most widely copied book at Qumran, and the manuscripts display some alternate arrangements.

Author: Eugene Ulrich, Frank Moore Cross, Joseph A. Fitsmyer
ISBN-10: 0198269439
ISBN-13: 9780198269434
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/11/2001
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.52lbs
Size: 12.56h x 9.44w x 1.13d