Qumran Cave 4: IV: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts

by Patrick W. Skehan, Eugene Ulrich, Judith E. Sanderson

This volume inaugurates the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It continues six biblical manuscripts written in ancient Palaeo-hebrew script, four Septuagint manuscripts, and five hitherto unknown compositions. The Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been the earliest surviving biblical codices in the original language, and they document the pluriform nature of the ancient...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263287
• ISBN13: 9780198263289
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 264 Pages