A New Join of Two Fragments of 4QcryptA Serekh haEdah and Its Implications

Updated by: 
Shiran Shevah
Research notes: 
SHS/not checked/14/09/2016
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Gayer, Asaf
Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel
Ben-Dov, Jonathan
year: 
2016
Full title: 

A New Join of Two Fragments of 4QcryptA Serekh haEdah and Its Implications

Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
Dead Sea Discoveries
Volume: 
23
Issue / Series Volume: 
2
Abbreviated Series Name: 
DSD
Pages: 
139-154
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Two cryptic A fragments of Serekh haEdah from cave 4 are hereby physically joined, and a third one constitutes a distant join. The composite text parallels 1QSa 1: 8–12 albeit with significant variants. The join is proven here in terms of the continuity of papyrus fibers and partial letters, as well as by the coherent composite text. The join requires separating a fragment that had been assembled by Milik. Substantially, although the joined fragments had been assigned in DJD 36 to different copies, they evidently constitute one and the same fragment. This join thus calls into question the classification of 8–9 different copies of the Serekh in cryptic script.

Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
1QSa
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249a
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249b
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249c
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249d
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249e
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249f
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249g
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249h
Scroll / Document: 
4Q249i
URL: 
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685179-12341387;jsessionid=g657s10d0f7a7.x-brill-live-02
Label: 
10/10/2016
Record number: 
102 127