4Q17
4Q17 (also 4QExod-Lev f ) is the name for five fragments of a leather scroll from the middle of the 3rd century BC. Four fragments contain parts of Exodus 38–40 and 3. Book of Moses 1–2 in Hebrew . The content of the fifth fragment is unclear. The fragments are thus the oldest surviving Torah texts . The scroll was taller than most at around 60 lines per column, and possibly contained the entire text of the Torah.
The fragments were found in Cave 4Q near Qumran on the Dead Sea in the 1950s and are now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem .
literature
- Armin Lange: The Dead See Scrolls and the Date of the Final Stage of the Pentateuch. In: James K. Aitken, Katharine J. Dell, Brian A. Mastin (eds.): On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honor of Graham Ivor Davies (= Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science . Volume 420). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, pp. 287–304, here p. 297 .
- Frank Moore Cross: 17. 4QExod-Lev f , in: Eugene C. Ulrich (Ed.): Qumran Cave 4.7: Genesis to Numbers (= Discoveries in the Judaean Desert . Volume 12). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994, pp. 133-144, panel XXII. ISBN 0-19-826365-1
- Stéphanie Anthonioz: 4QExode-Lévitique f (4Q17), in: Katell Berthelot, Thierry Legrand (ed.): La Bibliothèque de Qumrân 2, Torah: Exode, Lévitique, Nombres - Édition et traduction des manuscrits hébreux et grecs, araméens. Cerf, Paris 2010, pp. 3-53. ISBN 978-2-204-08773-5