(1QM) טור יט במגילת המלחמה

Updated by: 
Atar Livneh
Research notes: 
reader checked 12/01/2012 AL
Reference type: 
Hebrew Book Section;
Author(s): 
Yishay, Rony
year: 
2010
Full title: 

(1QM) טור יט במגילת המלחמה

Translated title: 
Column 19 of the War Scroll (1QM)
Journal / Book Title || Series Title: 
מגילות: מחקרים במגילות מדבר יהודה ח־ט [ Meghillot: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls VIII-IX ]
Volume: 
8-9
Editor(s): 
Bar-Asher, Moshe
Dimant, Devorah
Place of Publication: 
Jerusalem
Publisher: 
Haifa University Press and Bialik Institute
Pages: 
175-192
Work type: 
Essay/Monograph
Abstract: 

Column 19 of the War Scroll (1QM) has neither a continuous physical connection to any of the sheets of the War Scroll, nor a logical connection to the preceding text in Column 18 in terms of content. The extant text contains two literary units: a portion of the last part of a prayer (lines1-8), and a prose text describing the warriors the day after victory (lines 9-14). Comparative study has shown that both of these literary units appear with the same structure and order in 4Q492 1 and in column 19. In addition, as found there, the texts match entirely in content, wording, vocabulary, and spelling. Thus, it is possible to determine that both column 19 and 4Q492 1 are copies of the same document and that this document is not a copy of the War Scroll, as all it shares with the War Scroll is the prayer section. Comparative study has shown, moreover, that the prayer section in Column 19, lines 1-8 and in manuscript 4Q492 1 represents one version of the prayer, whereas a second version of the same prayer can be found in War Scroll 12, lines 7-16, with some expansions and minor orthographical and lexical differences. It has also been demonstrated that war literature contains routine prayers, which the authors adapted to their needs. Accordingly, we cannot automatically assume that the text in the War Scroll and the text found in Column 19 and 4Q492 1 represent two versions or two editions of a single text, if all they have in common is the prayer section that appears in two versions. That is, we can conclude that column 19 and manuscript 4Q492 1 represent one document, and that this is not a copy of the War Scroll. This forms the basis for my conclusion that column 19 does not belong to the sequence of columns of the War Scroll.

Language: 
Hebrew
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents: 
Scroll / Document: 
1QM
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
19
Scroll / Document: 
1QM
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
12
Scroll / Document: 
4Q492
Section type: 
Fragment
Passage: 
1
URL: 
http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/23438299?seq=1
Label: 
07/02/2011
Record number: 
11 863