Strangers to the 'Biblical Scrolls': Balaam's Fourth Oracle (Num 24:15-19) and its Links to Other Unique Excerpted Texts

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Abstract

The essay examines excerpts from Num 24:15-19 in the non-biblical scrolls that do not exist in the biblical scrolls. It also touches on linking biblical extracts and sectarian references that appear in a related scrolls. It argues that the excerpted biblical extracts and variant versions of biblical citations in the non-biblical scrolls should be included in the critical apparatus to the biblical scrolls because they are also witnesses to formation of the Bible. The focus is on 4Q175, 1QM:11, CD:7, and also 4Q174, 4Q177, 4Q158, 4Q379 and other intersecting biblical extracts in these scrolls.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIs there a Text in this Cave?
Subtitle of host publicationStudies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke
EditorsA Feldman, M Cioată, C Hempel
PublisherBrill
Pages226-257
Number of pages32
Volume119
ISBN (Print)978-90-04-34452-5
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2017

Publication series

NameStudies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
PublisherBrill

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