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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca
  • Cc: 'b-hebrew' <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 5 scrolls or 1
  • Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:41:31 +0100

On 22/08/2005 13:29, Ken Penner wrote:

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Second, by far most of the Dead Sea Scrolls containing parts of the Torah
attest only *one* of the five books per scroll. There are a few exceptions,
where parts of two books come from the same scroll.


But how significant is this when most of the surviving parts are small fragments? It is highly likely that such small fragments would come from only one part of a long scroll. And even if fragments from different parts of the same scroll do survive, would scholars necessarily know that they came from one scroll? A long scroll would come from many different skins, and would not necessarily be written by a single scribe. This is a good argument only if there are more or less complete scrolls of individual books which clearly start at the start of a book and/or end at the end of a book.

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Peter Kirk
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