The contribution of the fragmentary scrolls of Genesis-Numbers to the history of the biblical text lies in both primary and secondary readings. The former consist of variants to Gen 22:14; Exod 1:5; 39:21; Lev 26:30–31; Num 32:30. The latter are extant in Exod 2:3; Lev 1:1–7; 17:4; Num 18:26; 20:13 and chapters 27 + 36. The secondary readings are instructive concerning the transmission of the biblical text during the Second Commonwealth. They derived from ideological motives or literary concerns.
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Dominique Barthélemy, “Les Tiqqune Sopherim et la critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament,” in Congress Volume: Bonn, 1962, VTSup 9 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1963), 285–304 (295–303); repr. in idem, Études d’histoire du texte de l’Ancien Testament, obo 21 (Fribourg/Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978), 101–9.
Isac Leo Seeligmann, “Studies in the History of the Biblical Text,” Textus 20 (2000): 1–30 (7–9) (Heb. original published in Tarbiz 25 [1955–56]: 118–39).
Gilles Dorival et al., Les Nombres (La Bible d’Alexandrie 4; Paris: Cerf, 1994), 540.
Isa 66:3; 2 Chr 26:23–24; Philo, Spec. 1.199. Cf. Alexander Rofé, “Isaiah 66:1–4: Judean Sects in the Persian Period as Viewed by Trito-Isaiah,” in Biblical and Related Studies Presented to Samuel Iwry, ed. Ann Kort and Scott Morschauser (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1985), 205–17.
Molly M. Zahn, “ ‘Editing’ and the Composition of Scripture: The Significance of the Qumran Evidence,” HeBAI 3 (2014): 298–316. This able study contains rich references to earlier contributions. In my view, however, 4QJudga, 4QJerb , d, and JerLXX do not represent pristine versions of these books (pace Zahn, p. 306).
James R. Davila, “Text-Type and Terminology: Genesis and Exodus as Test Cases,” RevQ 16 (1993): 3–37; Nathan Jastram, “A Comparison of Two Proto-Samaritan Texts from Qumran: 4QpaleoExodm and 4QNumb,” dsd 5 (1998): 264–89; Frank M. Cross and Richard J. Saley, “A Statistical Analysis of the Textual Character of 4QSama (4Q51),” dsd 13 (2006): 46–54.
Bruno Chiesa, “Textual History and Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Old Testament,” in The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid 18–21 March, 1991, ed. Julio Trebole Barrera and Luis Vegas Montaner, stdj 11, 2 vols. (Leiden: Brill, 1992), 1.257–72.
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The contribution of the fragmentary scrolls of Genesis-Numbers to the history of the biblical text lies in both primary and secondary readings. The former consist of variants to Gen 22:14; Exod 1:5; 39:21; Lev 26:30–31; Num 32:30. The latter are extant in Exod 2:3; Lev 1:1–7; 17:4; Num 18:26; 20:13 and chapters 27 + 36. The secondary readings are instructive concerning the transmission of the biblical text during the Second Commonwealth. They derived from ideological motives or literary concerns.
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