A Cave 4 Fragment of Divre Mosheh (4QDM) and the Text of 1Q22 1:7–10 and Jubilees 1:9, 14

Abstract

I PAM 43.686 frg. 30 is also found in PAM 42.472,42.815, and 43.490. B.Z. Wacholder & M.G. Abegg, A Preliminary edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls. Hebrew and Aramaic texts from Cave Four. Fascicle III. Based on a Reconstruction of the Original Transcription of J.T. Milik and J. Strugnell (Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1995) 283, transcribed the fragment as 4Q396 frg. 2, due to the fact that it was placed with 4Q396 fragments in PAM 43.490, even though the hands are clearly different. E. Qimron and J. Strugnell (Qumran Cave 4.V. Miqsat Ma'as'eh ha-Torah [DJD 10; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994] 16-17) characterize the hand of 4Q396 as a vulgar semiformal of Herodian times, whereas the few letters of PAM 43.686 frg. 30 are written in a late Hasmonaean to early Herodian bookhand. 2 1Q22 was published by Milik in Qumran Cave I (DJD 1; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955) 91-97, Pls. XVIII-XIX. earliest photograph of the still unopened scroll and some fragments is given in G. Lankester Harding, The Dead Sea Scrolls, PEQ 81 (1949) 112-16, Pls. XVII-XXI, at P1. XXI, fig. 2. 1Q22 fragments shown in PEQ are frgs. 41 (verso), 42, 44 and 45, as well as three fragments from the beginning of the scroll, to wit the unnumbered fragments of col. 1 placed beneath frgs. 1 and 2, as well as the upper left piece of frg. 26. Apparently, these fragments had become detached from the interior of the unopened scroll.