Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:33:13 +0300, Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>
> wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > By the way, a few scrolls were found in (or actually under) the
> > synagogue at Masada, and they were in Hebrew. Also, all of the
> > liturgical material at Qumran is in Hebrew and Aramaic, not
> > Greek. But we really can't tell how representative that might be of
> > Jewish practice in general.
>
> I thought there were some (though not many) Greek biblical documents
> discovered at Qumran - is this not the case?
>

There were some. but most of them were on papyrus and most of the papyrus
documents were in such fragmentary state as to be useless. In fact, we
can’t tell how many of them there were.

>
> --
> William Parsons
> μη φαινεσθαι, αλλ' ειναι.
>

Karl W. Randolph.