The Genre of 4Q252: From Poetry To Pesher

Abstract

I All the photographs of are available in E. Tov with S.J. Pfann, Dead Sea Scrolls on Microfiche (Leiden: E.J. Brill/IDC, 1993). Both the list of texts (with associated negative numbers) in the Companion Volume (p. 38) and the list of PAM photographs in the Inventory List of Photographs contain some errors, so care should be exercised in using them: the principal plates for are PAM 43.253 (Fiche #69) and 43.381 (Fiche # 72). Photographs of are also printed in J.M. Allegro, Messianic References in Qumran Literature,JBL 75 (1956) P1. I (opposite p. 174 = frg. 6); R.H. Eisenman and J.M. Robinson, A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991) (P1. 230 = PAM 41.289; frg. 3; 409 = PAM 41.708: frgs 2, 4, 5, 6; 545 = PAM 41.979: frg. 5; PAM 42.185: frg. 1; 928 = PAM 42.609: frgs 2, 3, 5, 6; 1289 = PAM 43.253: frgs 1, 2; 1375 = PAM 43.381: frgs 3, 4, 5, 6; R.H. Eisenman and M.O. Wise, Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (Shaftesbury: Element Books, 1992) P1. 5 (their Text 14 = PAM 43.253 greatly reduced); T.H. Lim, Notes on fr. 1, cols i-ii,JJS 44 (1993) 126 (parts of PAM 41.289 and 43.253 combined). Hebrew text of is available on the basis of the work of J.T. Milik and others in B.Z. Wacholder and M. Abegg, A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls II (Washington: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992) 212-15; R.H. Eisenman and M.O. Wise, Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, 86-87. Frg. 1 was published in a preliminary form by T.H. Lim, The Chronology of the Flood Story in a Qumran Text (4Q252), JJS 43 (1992) 289-90. Col. 5 was published by J.M. Allegro in Messianic References in Qumran Literature, JBL 75 (1956) 174-75. Cols 1:1-2:5 together with related biblical passages are printed in parallel Hebrew columns in U. GleI3mer, Antike und moderne Auslegungen des Sintflutberichtes Gen 6-8 und der Qumran-Pesher (Theologische Fakulta.t Leipzig, Forschungstelle Judentum, Mitteilungen und Beitriige 6; Leipzig: Thomas Verlag, 1993) 30-39, For a diplomatic transcription of the text based on the photographs and the actual manuscript fragments themselves see G.J. Brooke, The Thematic Content of 4Q252, Dead Sea Scrolls: Proceedings of a Conference of the Center of Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (JQR Supplement; ed. D. Goldenberg; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Center for Judaic Studies, forthcoming). Further comments on readings can be found in H. Jacobson, 4Q252: Addenda, JJS 44 (1993) 118-20; T.H. Lim, Notes on fr. 1, cols i-ii, JJS 44 (1993) 121-26; M. Bernstein, 4Q252: From Rewritten Bible to Biblical Commentary, JJS 45 (1994) 1-27; G.J. Brooke and S. Cohen, 4Q252 2: An Extract from a Previously Unknown Epic Poem? JQR (forthcoming); G.J. Brooke, 4Q252 et le Nouveau Testament, La grande dechirure. Chritiens etjzufs au premier siecle (ed. D. Marguerat; Labor et Fides; Geneva, forthcoming). My paper, The Thematic Content of 4Q252, will be published with responses by M. Bernstein and I. Frohlich.