Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Heard, Christopher" <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

I would not call 11Q1 (Paleo-Leviticus) a "small fragment."

On Aug 22, 2005, at 5:41 AM, Peter Kirk wrote:

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