The Messiah At Qumran: Are We Still Seeing Double?
1995; Brill; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156851795x00120
ISSN1568-5179
Autores Tópico(s)Botanical Research and Chemistry
ResumoNew wine in old skins. evocative picture from Matt. 9:17 has fulfilled itself regularly in the relatively young field of Qumran research. single example will suffice to reveal the pitfalls for our present study. In the discipline of Old Testament textual criticism the accepted maxim that has provided the basis of all text-critical studies was, and still is to some degree, that there are three textual families in the Pentateuch-the LXX or Alexandrian text, the Samaritan Pentateuch or Palestinian text, and the MT or Babylonian text.' Outside the Pentateuch the text critic has relied on the LXX and MT to begin textual discussions. When the Qumran biblical texts began to be published in the 1950's, scroll scholars naturally began to organize their material by these categories. P. Skehan's Exodus in the Samaritan Recension from Qumran,2 F.M. Cross' 1953 preliminary publication of 4QSama, A New Qumran Biblical Fragment Related to the Original Hebrew Underlying the Septuagint,3 and D.N. Freedman's 1962 study on orthography, The Massoretic Text and the Qumran Scrolls, 4 are a sample of the state of the art of the day. scholarly community conceded and marched in lock step for nearly 30 years before E. Tov, a student of Cross, published the results of his own studies on 4QSama in The Textual Affiliations of 4QSama' and Determining the Relationship between the Qumran Scrolls and the
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