4Q46

4Q46 (also 4QpaleoDeut ^s ) is the fragment of a leather scroll from the late 3rd century BC. The fragment was found in cave 4Q near Qumran on the Dead Sea in the 1950s and is now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem .

The fragment comes from the upper edge of a scroll and contains parts from Deut. 26,14–15  LUT in paleo-Hebrew script . This makes it one of the oldest surviving manuscripts in the Bible . The text received is identical to the Masoretic text . Following verse 15 there is a vacat , which corresponds to the masoretic setting of a setuma. The division of words at the end of the line is also noteworthy.

literature

• Patrick W. Skehan, Eugene Charles Ulrich, Judith E. Sanderson: Qumran Cave 4.4: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts (= Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume 9). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992, pp. 153 f., No. 46. ISBN 0-19-826328-7

Web links

• 4Q46 English translation with markings
• Text on www.trismegistos.org