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Qumran Cave 4: XVI: Calendrical Texts (Discoveries in the Judaean Desert) [Hardcover]

Shemaryahu Talmon (Editor), Jonathan Ben-Dov (Editor), Uwe Glessmer (Editor)

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Publication Date: January 10, 2002 | Series: Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Book 21)

It is well documented that the Qumran community followed a solar calendar which differed fundamentally from the lunar calendar observed at the Temple in Jerusalem. This volume contains Qumran texts which delineated the community's calendar. Some of the texts were written in a unique script known as "Cryptic A", indicating their secret nature.

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another masterpiece in the DJD series... Sacha Stern, Journal of Semitic Studies All scholars of Qumran texts should be grateful to the three editors who have produced this volume. For the first time we have the corpus of calendrical texts available not only in transcription but also with photographs and full supporting detail in the DJD fashion. Dead Sea Discoveries

About the Author

Shemaryahu Talmon and Jonathan Ben-Dov are both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Uwe Glessmer is at the University of Hamburg.

Product Details

Hardcover: 292 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 10, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019827016X
ISBN-13: 978-0198270164
Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,248,166 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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FRAGMENTS of some twenty calendrical works were recovered from the Qumran caves: 4Q320-330; 4Q337; 4Q394 1-2; the tail end of an ephemeris preserved in a fragment of a copy of Miqsat Maase ha-Torah (4Q394 3-7 i); 6Q17; and a computation of jubilees over a long period of time, harnessed to otot of the priestly watches (4Q319). Read the first page

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dry rulings, other calendrical documents, otot section, mishmarot texts, intercolumnar margin, concluding sign, calendrical schedule, spelled plene, calendrical scroll, fourth jubilee, institutionalized prayer, annual quarter, calendrical texts, priestly courses, solar month, fifth jubilee, third jubilee, biblical festivals, lunar phenomenon, interlinear spaces, priestly watches, plene spelling, final mem, final nun, defective spelling

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Temple Scroll, Day of Atonement, Preliminary Edition, Waving of the Omer, Day of Remembrance, Development of the Jewish, New York, Festival of Booths, Festival of Weeks, Second Temple, Biblical Archaeology Society, Academic Press, Garden City, Magnes Press, Mazzoth Festival, Qumran Cave, Cave Four, Feast of Weeks, Annales Fuere, Festival of Oil, Festival of Wood Offering, Festival of Wine, Hebrew Bible, Beer Sheva, Critical Edition

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This book cites 16 books:

Bible and the Ancient Near East: Essays in Honor of William Foxwell Albright by Ernest G. Wright on 10 pages
Thunder in Gemini And Other Essays on the History, Language And Literature of Second Temple Palestin (The Library of Second Temple Studies) by Michael Owen Wise on 7 pages
Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Measuring Time (The Literature of the Dead Sea Scrolls) by James C. VanderKam on 6 pages
Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 by J.T. Milik on page 181, page 195, and page 206
Book of Jubilees (Guides To The Apocrypha And Pseudepigrapha) by James VanderKam on page 3, page 6, and page 127

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