Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Naude (2002: 172) reproduces 4Q251 5.4 as:

ולחם בכורים היא חלות החמץ

Eisenman and Wise (1992), however, read הוא rather than היא. 
Unfortunately, I'm a long way away from any good academic library at the 
moment. I'm wondering if anyone might be able to verify which reading is 
correct? I think the text should be in v.25 of DJD.

Naudé, Jocobus A. 2002. “The Third Person Pronoun in Tripartite Verbless 
Clauses of Qumran Hebrew.” Pages 161-181 in Pronouns—Grammar and 
Representation. Edited by Horst J. Simon and Heike Wiese. Linguistik 
Aktuell 52. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Eisenman, Robert and Michael Wise. 1992. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: 
The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents 
Withheld for Over 35 Years. Shaftesbury: Element.

Many thanks,
David Kummerow.