Abstract
The Judaean Desert documents (often named 'the Dead Sea Scrolls') constitute the largest corpus of texts in non-lapidary scripts providing information about scribal habits in early Israel relating to biblical and non-biblical texts. They may be compared with other texts in Hebrew and Aramaic in non-lapidary scripts, especially the large corpora of Elephantine papyri and other Aramaic manuscripts from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE. These two groups of documents are highly significant as comparative material for the present analysis; among other things, evidence shows that the manuscripts from the Judaean Desert continued the writing tradition of the Aramaic documents from the 5th century BCE in several respects. For the purpose of this study, the following areas have been singled out from the many scribal aspects of manufacturing and preparing the Judaean Desert documents: the local production of written material in the Judaean Desert, special characteristics of the Qumran corpus, the reasons behind the scribal peculiarities of the Qumran corpus, internal differences between the Qumran caves, and chronological differences between the corpora.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Jewish Manuscript Cultures |
Subtitle of host publication | New Perspectives |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
Pages | 30-48 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110546422 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783110546392 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 18 Dec 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 E. Tov,published by De Gruyter.