קריאות חדשות וצירופי קטעים בחיבור החוכמה 'מוסר למבין'

This article presents new joins and readings in two distinct copies of Instruction. Material and textual considerations support the new joins, and are presented at length to the reader. They are accompanied by new editions of the joined fragments, along with notes on readings. Limited commentary remarks are presented in an appendix.
|Two of the new joins pertain to 4Q415, copy a of Instruction. The first, 4Q415 1 i–ii + 2 i–ii, disproves a former join of these fragments, suggested by Strugnell. Rather than positioning the fragments side by side, I argue that the two fragments should be placed one above the other. An additional join is suggested with regard to fragments 4Q415 9+10. Although the two joins do not provide significant new readings, the new configurations provide the foundations for a better material reconstruction of this copy.
|I also suggest joining fragments 4Q418 55 + 47 + 57 + 211 + 217. Fragment 4Q418 55 is one the substantial fragments of Instruction. Discussed by a great number of scholars, the fragment presents the angels as pedagogical role models for humankind. The new joins enable an improved analysis of the fragment’s literary structure, which in turn sheds new light on the rhetorical move employed in it.