7Q2

7Q2 (formerly 7QLXXEpJer , No. 804 after Rahlfs ) is a fragment of a papyrus manuscript from the 1st century BC. It contains the oldest surviving parts of the deuterocanonical letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6), verses 42–43 in the Greek language ( Septuagint ).

The fragment was found in Cave 7 in Qumran on the Dead Sea in the 1950s and is now in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem , Inv. Size 789

literature

• Maurice Baillet, Józef Milik, Roland de Vaux: Les petites grottes de Qumrân (= Discoveries in the Judaean desert. Volume 3). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1962, p. 43 ( online ).