>At 02:04 11/25/96 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>>How do I get the Greek text for excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls?
>
>You generally cannot, aside from a few fragments from Cave 7, because
>they were written Hebrew.
>>I would love to see the Greek text to which he refers. My Bible
doesn't have
>>a QH in it...
>
>If you Danker closely enough, you will find that he does not refer to
a
>Greek text. Instead, 1QH is the "Thanksgiving Hymns" from the Qumran
>Cave 1. Other texts from the cave are 1QS (The Manual of
Discipline),
>1QSa (the Messianic Rule), 1QM (the War Scroll), and 1QpHab (the
Habakkuk
>pesher).
And just to piggy-back (I learned yesterday that the original form of
that term is "pick-a-back": is that news to anyone else besides me?)
onto Stephen's note: you can find further info, including, I believe, a
translation of the "Thanksgiving Hymns" at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Library/library.html
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University
One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, USA 63130
(314) 935-4018
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwc@oui.com
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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