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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Psalm 22:16 like a lion they mauled, the emendation question
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:42:53 -0400


At 08:20 AM 9/16/02 -0600, you wrote:
> A statement was made that the DSS did not contain Ps. 22:16. In "The Dead
> Sea Scrolls Bible" the verse is listed. It states that the phrase in the
> MS they have has "they have pierced" and not "like a lion" as in most
> Hebrew MSS. Anyone have any further information on this?
>
Psalm 22:16, in a fairly fragmentary state, is preserved in 4QPs(f) and is
published in DJD 16, transcription on page 88. The reading is uncertain; the
DJD transcription shows 2 uncertain letters in this word, KR, followed by W in
brackets (indicating a restoration by the editor). So it looks like this:

K?R?[W

I'm guessing that the reason the DSS Bible reads "they pierced" is because the
aleph appears to have been elided, something that likely wouldn't happen with
the word for "lion." I'd be inclined to agree, but wouldn't go to the stake for it.


It has been a while since I looked at it on the photos that Eisenman put out, but I recall that the aleph was fairly clear but that the last letter had a mark through it and could be either a yod or a vov, possible a long yod. The general quality of the scribe of that fragment was not impressive.

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