4Q121

4Q121 (according to the old system as: 4QLXXNum^b gr, Rahlfs 803) is a Septuagint manuscript written on parchment (made of animal skin), dated to the 1st century BCE or CE. The scroll contains fragments of the biblical Book of Numbers 3:40-43; 4:5-16.^[1] It was found in Qumran in Cave 4. This fragment is also numbered 803 in the list of manuscripts of the Septuagint by Alfred Rahlfs. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically between 30 BCE and 68 CE.

Description

This manuscript comprises 23 fragments and three columns.^[2]

Version

The text has affinity toward Hebrew Pentateuch,^[3] which, according to Robert J. Wilkinson, may be considered a kaige recension of the Greek Scriptures.^[4]

Treatment to the God's name

P. W. Skehan claims that the "reconstruction, spacing would seem to allow either κυριος [Kyrios] or יהוה [YHWH], whereas ιαω as in pap4QLXXLevb and the (Christian) abbreviation ΚϹ [kappa-sigma] would be too short.”^[5]

History

The manuscript was published and described in 1992 by Patrick Skehan in Qumran cave 4.4 (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 9). The old sign of the scroll indicates that it was found in the cave 4, which is the manuscript of the LXX or Septuagint, containing the contents of the Book of Numbers.

Actual location

This manuscript is kept at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem (Gr. 265 [4Q121]).

References

^ "Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations".
^ Florentino García Martínez; Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 294. ISBN 9780802844934.
^ Geza Vermes (2004). The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Penguin UK. p. 464. ISBN 9780141901930.
^ Robert J. Wilkinson (2015). Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century. BRILL. p. 49. ISBN 9789004288171.
^ Patrick Skehan; Eugene C. Ulrich; Judith E. Sanderson (April 22, 1993). Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume IX. Qumran Cave 4: IV: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780198263289.

Bibliography

Skehan, Patrick W.; Ulrich, Eugene Charles; Sanderson, Judith E.; et al. (Peter J. Parsons) (1992). Qumran Cave 4. Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Manuscripts Biblical. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. Vol. 9. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 187–194, no. 121. ISBN 9780198263289.

External links

"Skehan e.a., Qumran cave 4.4 (Discoveries in the Judaean desert 9)". Trismegistos. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
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[1] "Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations".

[2] Florentino García Martínez; Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 294. ISBN 9780802844934.

[3] Geza Vermes (2004). The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. Penguin UK. p. 464. ISBN 9780141901930.

[4] Robert J. Wilkinson (2015). Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century. BRILL. p. 49. ISBN 9789004288171.

[5] Patrick Skehan; Eugene C. Ulrich; Judith E. Sanderson (April 22, 1993). Discoveries in the Judaean Desert: Volume IX. Qumran Cave 4: IV: Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek Biblical Manuscripts. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780198263289.

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