Genesis apocryphon

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The Genesis Apocryphon (Sigel 1Q20 , 1QapGen or 1QGenAp ) is a leather scroll that was used around 25 BC. BC and AD 50 was described in Aramaic . It contains a text that tells the events around the biblical people Lamech , Enoch , Noach and Abraham in a form and with information that go beyond the accounts of Genesis . The stories are often told in the first person and are also based on the Book of Anniversaries and the Book of Enoch .

The handwriting is badly damaged, many parts of the text are illegible, the text breaks off after the 22nd column.

The fragment was found in 1947 in Cave 1 in Qumran by the Dead Sea . It is now in the Shrine of the Book , a building of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

literature

  • Daniel A. Machiela: The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment of Columns 13-17 (= Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah. Volume 79). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-16814-5 .
  • DA Machiela: The Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20): A Reevaluation of its Text, Interpretive Character, and Relationship to the Book of Jubilees. Dissertation, Notre Dame 2007 ( online , latest scientific presentation with transcription, English translation and images)
  • Joseph A. Fitzmyer: The Genesis Apocryphon of Qumran Cave 1 (1Q20). A Commentary (= Biblica et orientalia. Volume 18 / B). 3rd edition, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome 2004, ISBN 88-7653-318-4 .
  • Johannes Maier, Kurt Schubert: The Qumran Essenes . 3rd edition, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-8252-0224-0 , p. 270 ff.

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