Joshua apocryphon

Joshua Apocryphon , also Joshua Psalms (4QapocrJosh ^a / 4Q378, 4QapocrJosh ^b / 4Q379, 4QapocrJosh ^c / 4Q522, also 5QapocrJosh / 5Q9) is the name for a script which, in some fragments, dates from the 1st century BC. BC and the 1st century AD in Qumran on the Dead Sea . It contains speeches, blessings and prayers of the biblical Joshua that are otherwise unknown. The text is based on the speeches of Joshua in the book of Joshua , chapters 1, 18–21, 23–24 and Moses in Deuteronomy 1–3 and 28–31.

The fragments were found in Caves 4 and 5 in the 1950s and are now largely in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem .

literature

• Emile Puech: Qumrân, grotte 4. Textes hébreux (= Discoveries in the Judaean desert. Volume 25). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1998, pp. 39-74, No. 522 [4Q522].

Web links

• Emanuel Tov, A Rewritten Book of Joshua as Found at Qumran and Masada
• Apocryphon of Joshua (overview of seven fragments on trismegistos)