זיהויי קטעים חדשים בחיבור אפוקריפון ירמיה C

Building on the foundational work of John Strugnell and Devorah Dimant on the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C (4Q385a, 4Q387, 4Q387a, 4Q388a, 4Q389), the material reconstructions of Kipp Davis, and Elisha Qimron’s identifications of fragments, one may identify more fragments that contribute to the ongoing reconstruction of the texts of this fragmentary work. The new identifications include (a) the textual and material identification of unidentified fragments (PAM 43.663 frag. 37; PAM 43.667 frag. 21; PAM 43.680 frag. 59) that had not yet been assigned to any of the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C manuscripts; (b) the textual identification of one other unidentified fragment, 4Q282f, as overlapping with the text of Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, but apparently not belonging materially to any of the hitherto five published manuscripts; (c) the textual identification of 4Q387a frags. 3 and 4 as overlapping with respectively 4Q389 frags. 2 and 5. These new identifications add to the textual basis of the Apocryphon and require us to review the codicological data. Qimron’s earlier identification of the overlap of 4Q387a frag. 5 with 4Q385a frag. 1a–b ii, and the new identifications of overlaps of 4Q387a frags. 3 and 4, confirm Strugnell’s assessment that the 4Q387a fragments belong to the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, but there are no valid grounds to separate 4Q387a from 4Q387. On the other hand, 4Q282f provides evidence of yet another manuscript of the same composition, so that one may now distinguish the following five Apocryphon of Jeremiah C manuscripts: 4Q385a, 4Q387+4Q387a, 4Q388a, 4Q389, and 4Q282f.