Hymn scroll

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The Hymn Scroll (usually referred to as the modern Hebrew name הודיות Hodayot "praises" siglum 1QH a ) is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls . The term Thanksgiving Scroll is common in English-speaking countries .

Reconstruction of the text

After the original edition by Eleazar Sukenik (Jerusalem 1965) was flawed, Hartmut Stegemann and Émile Puech came up with the current text arrangement independently by using the reconstruction method that Stegemann had developed, which is also the basis for the authoritative text edition by Eileen Schuller ( DJD XL) lies.

It is a scroll that was originally around 4.5 m long (seven arches with four columns each). While the beginning and end of the role can hardly be reconstructed, about 75% of the text of columns 4 to 26 is known.

content

In terms of content, the hymn roll is an anthology of around 30 poetic texts in which God is praised as the savior from adversity and the revelator of secrets. A distinction is usually made between “teacher songs” (columns X – XIX), which are framed by “church songs” (columns I – VIII and XX – XXVI). The I of the teacher's songs has often been identified with the teacher of justice . This is countered by the fact that statements of faith in the first person are singular psalm style and appear similar in the biblical psalms . This is supported by the fact that there is a “self-glorification hymn” among these texts, which requires an extraordinary self-confidence on the part of the prayer.

Relation to other Qumran texts

There are fragments of other anthologies of anthems from cave 1 ( 1QH b ) and cave 4 (4Q427–4Q432), with text parallels, but which have a different structure and content of the texts, or their relationship to Hodayot no longer because of the lost beginning and end is understandable. In addition, there are small remnants of four roles with anthems of anthems without text parallels to Hodayot (so-called Hodayot-like text A – D).

The arrangement of the individual hymns was in motion at the time the roles were written (“fluid composition”). Originally, shorter compositions were probably put together for the long text by Hodayot, which also represents a particularly elaborately designed scroll, a "de-luxe edition" in terms of execution.

Text edition

Hartmut Stegemann, Eileen M. Schuller: 1QHodayot a: with incorporation of 1QHodayot b and 4QHodayot a - f . (= DJD, Volume 40). Clarendon, Oxford 2009.

literature

  • Hartmut Stegemann: Reconstruction of the Hodajot. Original form and critically edited text of the hymn scroll from Cave I of Qumran. Diss. Phil., Heidelberg 1963.
  • Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra : Qumran: The Dead Sea Texts and Ancient Judaism (UTB 4681). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 9783825246815 .
  • Géza G. Xeravits, Peter Porzig: Introduction to the Qumran literature. The Dead Sea manuscripts. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034975-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Géza G. Xeravits, Peter Porzig: Introduction to Qumran literature , Berlin / Boston 2015 S. 212th
  2. Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra: Qumran: The texts from the Dead Sea and ancient Judaism , Tübingen 2016, p. 249.
  3. Géza G. Xeravits, Peter Porzig: Introduction to Qumranliteratur , Berlin / Boston 2015, p. 214.
  4. Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra: Qumran: The texts from the Dead Sea and ancient Judaism , Tübingen 2016, p. 250.
  5. a b Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra: Qumran: The texts from the Dead Sea and ancient Judaism , Tübingen 2016, p. 251.