Full Description
This monograph revises the first edition of this book (2004) which is long overdue. Many segments needed revision due in large part to the veritable flood of studies published in the wake of the first edition. In other cases, the author changed his mind in his continued study of the scrolls improved by the new images of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. Hyperlinks to this library are now added to most references to the scrolls. This book covers many aspects of a handbook for those who study the scrolls, material culture, and edit scroll fragments.
Contents
Preface
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Judean Desert Texts
Bibliography 2004-
1 Introduction
a Purpose and Nature of the Description
b Text Corpora
c Sources for the Analysis
d Background of the Documents
2 Scribes
a Identity, Nature, and Status
b Learning Scribal Skills
c Production of Scrolls in the Judean Desert?
d Characteristic Features of Individual Scribes
e Identification of Scribal Hands
f Background of Scribal Traditions
g Approaches of Scribes to Their Vorlagen
h Autographs?
i Identification of the Vorlagen of the Judean Desert Scrolls?
j Different Levels of Scribal Skills
3 Material Culture: Writing and Writing Materials
a Papyrus
b Treated Skins
c Sheets
d Scrolls
e Texts Written on Papyrus
f Ink
g Writing Implements
4 Technical Aspects of Scroll Writing
a Ruling, Guide Dots/Strokes
b Opisthographs and Palimpsests
c Length and Scope of Scrolls
d Dimensions of Sheets, Number of Columns per Sheet
e Dimensions of Columns and Margins
f The Written Text vis-à-vis Horizontal and Vertical Ruling
g Conventions Used at the Beginnings and Ends of Scrolls
h Titles of Compositions and Headers of Sections
i Uneven Surface, Damage, Repair Stitching, and Patching
j Deluxe Editions
k Relation between Scrolls and Compositions
l Scroll Manufacturers and Scribes
5 Writing Practices
a Divisions between Words, Small Text Units (Stichs and Verses), Sections, Poetical Units, and Books
b Poetic Layout and Superscriptions
c Scribal Marks and Procedures
d Divine Names: Different Approaches and Writing Procedures in the Qumran Scrolls
e Errors
f Scribal Intervention Techniques
g Mixture of Final and Nonfinal Letters
h Notation of Variant Readings and Glosses?
i Abbreviations
j Consistency
k Appendix: Implications for Literary Criticism of Hebrew Scripture
6 Scripts
a Square (Jewish) Script
b Writing in the Paleo-Hebrew Script and Its Background
c Cryptic Scripts
d Mixture of Scripts
7 Special Scribal Characteristics of Some Groups of Texts
a Scripture Texts
b Scripture Texts Written in the Paleo-Hebrew Script
c Tefillin and Mezuzot
d Texts Written on Papyrus
e Texts Written in Greek
f Pesharim
g Texts Written in Cryptic Scripts
h Texts Written in Aramaic
8 Scribal Traditions
a Possible Text Groups
b Continuation of Scribal Traditions
c Possible Influence from Greek Scribal Practices
d Scribal Practices Mentioned in Rabbinic Sources
Appendix 1: Characteristic Scribal Features of the Qumran Scribal Practice
Appendix 2: Papyrus Texts from the Judean Desert
Appendix 3: Opisthographs from the Judean Desert
Appendix 4: The Greek Texts from the Judean Desert
Appendix 5: Scribal Features of Early Witnesses of Greek Scripture
Appendix 6: The Texts from Masada
Appendix 7: Scope and Spacing of the Units in the Scripture Text Quoted in the Pesharim
Appendix 8: Some Textual Features of Scripture Manuscripts
Appendix 9: Orthographic and Morphological Features of Texts Written in the Qumran Scribal Practice
Bibliography
Figures
Illustrations
