Dierk,
There are several problems with your comments below, as well as one from your
previous post.
For starters, in your previous post you said The book of Jonah is not used by
the yahad. But the whole Yahad question is still one of the hot buttons
in DSS research, and as tenuous as the purported connections between the
scrolls and Qumran are, it's not a good idea to just breeze by them like
this. For myself, I don't buy the idea that there was some separatist
yahad that produced the so-called sectarian scrolls, but that's a matter
for another thread. Suffice to say that the comment about Jonah and the
Yahad is a bit of an overstatement.
In general parlance, Dead Sea Scrolls refers to any of the scrolls found at
sites on or near the Dead Sea. This includes Murraba`at, Nahal Hever, Masada
and several others. It is even more misleading to refer to these scrolls as
material from abroad, since all the sites are within reasonable proximity
to each other. This is why I didn't include the CD documents in my book;
regardless of what may have been found that's similar, Cairo isn't on the
Dead Sea so its material really is from abroad. But these other sites are
on the Dead Sea, and so it is common and acceptable to refer to them as part
of the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus. If you are using the term in a more narrow
sense, you need to make that clear; you can't just arbitrarily say this is
how we're going to use the term because others' usage may vary and their
usage is at least as legitimate as yours.
To answer the original question regarding Jonah's preservation, see my book.
There are no surviving peshers, but given that we are dealing with the
accident of preservation, that doesn't necessarily mean there were none.
Except for a couple of very small scraps, the only attestation for Job is in
a Targum. Does that mean that whoever produced and hid the scrolls only (or
primiarily) used Job in Aramaic? We can't say, because all we have is what
happened to survive the desert.
To sum up, this statement
DSS - Dead Sea Scrolls (material exclusively of cave 1-11 from Kh. Qumran)
may be true in your parlance, but it certainly is not accurate or
representative of general usage in the field.
On Monday 21 February 2005 07:30, Dierk van den Berg wrote:
Guiseppe,
I've just clarified that both quotations do NOT belong to the DSS corpus.
And it is indeed misleading to intrude cross-refs of material from abroad,
so that a starter might believe that Jonah quotations are present even if
there are none.
DSS - Dead Sea Scrolls (material exclusively of cave 1-11 from Kh. Qumran)
_Dierk
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From: Giuseppe Regalzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS
Dierk van den Berg wrote:
One might add that MurXII and 8HevXIIgr have nothing to do with the DSS.
Scrolls from both Wadi Murabba`at and Nahal Hever are included in the
_The Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche_, in _The Dead Sea Scroll's
Catalogue_ by Reed, and so on.
Perhaps Jeffrey B. Gibson meant DSS in the narrower (equally
legitimate) sense of Qumran Scrolls, but even in this case there was
nothing wrong, IMHO, in giving two more references that someone else,
maybe, could find of
interest.
Giuseppe
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Rome, Italy
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