Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS
Dierk van den Berg wrote: Guiseppe, Giuseppe 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) In the scholarly literature the term "Dead Sea Scrolls" has both a broad and a narrow meaning. See -- among others -- the Companion Volume to The Dead Sea Scrolls Microfiche Edition, the introduction to Reed's Catalogue, Washburn's A Catalog of Biblical Passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Harper's Bible Dictionary s.v. " Scrolls, the Dead Sea", The Anchor Bible Dictionary. And, BTW, apart from 4QXIIafg there is a Jonah (indirect) quotation in the *Qumran* Scrolls, as I showed yesterday: 1QH(a) XV 4-5 (= Sukenik VII,5 -- thanks Ken Penner for the correction!). Giuseppe --------- Giuseppe Regalzi, PhD Rome, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://regalzi.port5.com/ http://www.orientalisti.net/ ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
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 ----- Giuseppe Regalzi, PhD Rome, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://regalzi.port5.com/ http://www.orientalisti.net/ ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS
Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote: Can anyone here tell me what if any reception the Book of Jonah has within the DSS? Is it found among the scrolls? Is there any comment upon it, or use of it within the non biblical material? Yes, the Book of Jonah is found among the Scrolls: 4QXIIa (150-125 BCE), cols. V-VII: contains Jonah 1:1-5.7-10.15-2:1.7; 3:2; 4QXIIf (ca. 50 BCE), cols. I-II: contains Jonah 1:6-8.10-16; 4QXIIg (last third of I cent. BCE), frgs. 76-91i: contains Jonah 1:1-9; 2:3-3:3; 4:5-11; MurXII (ca. 130 CE), cols. X-XI: contains the whole book (with lacunae). There is also a Greek translation (the so-called Kaige recension) of Jonah: 8HevXIIgr (50 BCE - 50 CE?), cols. II-III: contains Jonah 1:14-2:7; 3:2-5.7-4:2.5. As far as I know, there is no Pesher Yonah, nor any direct citation or paraphrase of the Book among the non-biblical texts; but in 1QH 7:5 you can find a clear reminiscence of Jonah chap. 1 + 4:8 in the words )WNYH BZ(P XRY$YT. Hope this helps, Giuseppe - Giuseppe Regalzi, PhD Rome, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://regalzi.port5.com/ http://www.orientalisti.net/ ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
Re: [Megillot] Unicode transcription of uncertain characters
Ken Penner wrote: > I have been using the Unicode characters U+05AF (HEBREW MARK MASORA > CIRCLE) and U+05C4 (HEBREW MARK UPPER DOT) to place a circle and dot > (respectively) above characters that are only partially legible. > Is this common practise, or is there a preferable way? In my opinion, it would be preferable to use the less specific U+0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE and U+030A COMBINING RING ABOVE. Unfortunately, Unicode Hebrew fonts have almost always a glyph for the former character, but not for the latter. Giuseppe ------ Giuseppe Regalzi University of Turin, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://purl.org/net/regalzi/ http://www.orientalisti.net/ ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
