אל תקרי דוקָה אלא דְבֵקָה: עיון מחודש במשמעות מונח קלנדרי ייחודי בלוח השנה השמשי של עדת 'הבאים בברית החדשה' מימי בית שני

Updated by: 
Atar Livneh
Research notes: 
reader checked 18/01/2012 AL
Reference type: 
Hebrew Book Section;
Author(s): 
Talmon, Shemaryahu
year: 
2007
Full title: 

אל תקרי דוקָה אלא דְבֵקָה: עיון מחודש במשמעות מונח קלנדרי ייחודי בלוח השנה השמשי של עדת 'הבאים בברית החדשה' מימי בית שני

Translated title: 
Duqah or Deveqa : The Unique Term from the Solar Calendar of the 'Community of the Renewed Covenant' Reconsidered
Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
מגילות: מחקרים במגילות מדבר יהודה ה-ו. מוגשים לדבורה דימנט [ Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls V-VI. A Festschrift for Devorah Dimant ]
Editor(s): 
Bar-Asher, Moshe
Tov, Emanuel
Place of Publication: 
Jerusalem
Publisher: 
Bialik Institute and Haifa University Press
Pages: 
309-322
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Qumran Hebrew vocabulary is often marked by terms and expressions peculiar to the Yaḥad. This article treats the Hebrew word duqah which occurs in two calendrical texts, 4Q321 (Mishmarot B) and 4Q321a (Mishmarot C), a term not found elsewhere in other Qumran documents, nor in the Bible, rabbinic writings, or the Apocrypha. In the fragments of the two calendrical documents, 4Q321 and 4Q321a, the term duqah appears repeatedly as a technical term referring to a specific day in each lunar month. Scholars have suggested different interpretations of duqah, debating whether it signified the beginning of the lunar month or the full moon. In the past, the present author suggested that it signified the beginning of the waning of the moon in the middle of the month. In this paper, the author suggests an understanding of the term duqah based on medieval Hebrew calendrical texts, which use the term debekah to signify the conjunction of the sun and the moon when the moon's light is totally eclipsed by the sun.

Language: 
Hebrew
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
4Q321
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
4
Scroll / Document: 
4Q321a
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
3
URL: 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/23438236?seq=1
Label: 
31/12/2007
Record number: 
10 516