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4QReworked Pentateuch C and the Literary Sources of the Temple Scroll: A New (Old) Proposal
Zahn, Molly M.
Zahn, Molly M.
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This essay proposes a new understanding of the literary history of the Temple Scroll in light of its relationship with 4QReworked Pentateuch C (4Q365 + 365a). It begins from the argument that 4QRP C includes the five fragments labeled 4Q365a (4QTemple?), and that 4QRP C should be regarded as an expanded edition of the Pentateuch. Substantial parallels between 4QRP C (both 4Q365 and 4Q365a) and the Temple Scroll raise the possibility that an expanded Pentateuch resembling 4QRP C could have constituted the main source with which the Temple Scroll’s redactor worked. This proposal departs from the usual understanding of the Scroll as comprised of several lightly-reworked, independent sources. Instead, it situates the composition of the Temple Scroll more firmly in the context of the ongoing scribal reworking of scripture in the Second Temple period.
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This is the author's accepted manuscript. The original is available at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/156851712x644622
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2012
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Temple scroll, 4QReworked pentateuch, 4Q365, 4Q365a, Scriptural rewriting, Variant literary editions
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Zahn, Molly M. "4QReworked Pentateuch C and the Literary Sources of the Temple Scroll: A New (Old) Proposal 1." Dead Sea Discoveries 19.2 (2012): 133-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851712X644622