Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT Use: Qumran

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Intertestamental, Apocrypha, NT UseQumran Christopher T. Begg and Joseph E. Jensen 1499. [Psalm 151 (11Q5)] Marcin Biegas, "Postac Dawida w hebrajskiej wersji Psalmu 151 (11Q5) [The Figure of David in the Hebrew Version of Psalm 151]," BibAn 8 (2018) 5-28. Until the discovery of the DSS, Psalm 151 was known only through its Greek and Latin versions as these appear in the LXX and Vulgate Book of Psalms. In addition, a Syriac translation of the psalm that was included in a tenth cent. a.d. collection of Apocryphal Psalms was known as well. In 1965, James Sanders published the Psalms Scroll (11Q5), a collection of mostly Hebrew psalms with counterparts in the MT Psalter, discovered in Qumran Cave 11, that also included a Hebrew text of Psalm 151. This article focuses on the figure of David as depicted in Psalm 151, which retells, in poetic form, the story of the son of Jesse as related in 1 Samuel 16–17. B. divides his article into two parts: In the first, he discusses the Psalms Scroll in general and reviews the scholarly discussion concerning Psalm 151 in particular. The second part provides the Hebrew text of the psalm along with [End Page 512] a Polish translation of this and linguistic, syntactical, and theological remarks concerning it. [Adapted from published abstract] 1500. [DSS] Lutz Doering, "Law and Lawlessness in Texts from Qumran," Law and Lawlessness, 9-28 [see #1560]. In his essay, D. examines the centrality of law-abidance in the documents from Qumran, arguing that on the whole the texts display a general ethos of law-abidance and a similar conceptualization of sin and transgression. The Qumran documents do not understand the term "lawlessness" in the sense of an exemption from the law for the sectarians; rather, lawlessness is taken as a matter of disregard for, or disobedience to the law on the part of (other) Israelites. As such, the term occurs mostly in three connections in the Scrolls: first as the historic lawlessness of Israel, from which those seeking initiation into the Qumran group had to return to the Torah of Moses; second, as a (re)lapse of group members or initiates into various kinds of lawlessness; and third, as the present lawlessness of others, such as those whose practices are guided by a "wrong" calendar, a corrupt legal tradition, or a faulty understanding of the Torah. [Adapted from published abstract] 1501. [Zion Psalm from Wadi Murabba>at] Ariel Feldman, "An Overlooked Psalm Addressing Zion from Wadi Murabba>at," JBL 138 (2019) 365-76. This note revisits a psalm addressing Zion Mur 6, a scroll found in the caves of Wadi Murabba>at. It offers a revised edition of the psalm based on recent infrared images and attempts to situate it within the wider group of Second Temple texts addressing Jerusalem. [Adapted from published abstract] 1502. [DSS; Prophetic Books] Simone Pagani, "Biblische Prophetie in der Bibliothek am Toten Meer. Einige Beobachtungen zu den Prophetenschriften in den Dead Sea Scrolls," Profeti Maggiori e Minori, 25-36 [see #1625]. P.'s short article begins with summary comments on the Qumran site, its (non-Essene) inhabitants, and the DSS as a whole. It then focuses on the corpus of 44 manuscripts—many of them quite fragmentary—containing portions of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Here P provides information concerning the DSS witnesses to the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve, and their textual character (proto-MT, proto-LXX, "unaligned") represented by these. He concludes with three theses concerning, respectively, the relationship between the MT and the DSS text of the Prophetic Books, the Twelve Prophets as a collection in the DSS witnesses, and the importance of prophecy in Second Temple Judaism vis-à-vis the relative "unimportance" of the prophetic books themselves as suggested by the above-mentioned fact that among the some 1,000 manuscripts recovered from the Judean Desert area only 44 are of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. 1503. [DSS; Genesis 12–50] Marek Parchem, "Księga Rodzaju 12–50 w Qumran: Interpretacja opowiadań o patriachach w wybranych tekstach z Pustyni Judzkiej [Genesis...