To increase learning for the understanding ones : : reading and reconstructing the fragmentary early Jewish sapiential text 4QInstruction / / by Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar.

• Superior document: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, v. 44
• Author: Tigchelaar, Eibert J. C.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages)

This study aims at furthering our understanding of the early Jewish sapiential composition 4QInstruction which was found in fragmentary manuscripts at Qumran. The first part focuses on the reading and joining of the fragments, and gives an approximate reconstruction of the manuscripts and the composition. The second part discusses some disputed sections and themes in more detail, especially the beginning of the composition (4Q416 1), its relation to the Community Rule and the Hodayot, alleged sacerdotal fragments (4Q415 1 ii-2 I and 4Q418 81), as well as fragments describing fate after death (4Q418 55 and 69 ii). The first part is intended as a supplement to the official DJD edition, whereas the second part is of a more general interest.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVlATIONS -- READING AND RECONSTRUCTING 4QINSTRUCTION -- ESTABLISHING THE TEXT OF 4QINSTRUCTION -- 4Q415 -- 4Q416 -- 4Q417 -- 4Q418 1,2, 2B AND PARALLELS -- 4Q418 -- MORE 4Q418 FRAGMENTS -- 4Q418A -- 4Q423 -- 1Q26 (1QINSTRUCTION) -- OVERLAPS AND VARIANTS IN THE INSTRUCTION MANUSCRIPTS -- RECONSTRUCTING INSTRUCTION -- SECTIONS, THEMES, AND WORDS IN 4QINSTRUCTION -- THE BEGINNING OF INSTRUCTION -- INSTRUCTION, 1QS III–IV, AND 1QH V (SUKENIK XIII and FRAGS.) -- 4Q418 55 AND 69 ii -- THE HOLY SEED: 4Q415 1 ii—2 i AND 4Q418 81 -- NOTES ON SOME WORDS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF AUTHORS -- INDEX OF TEXTS -- INDEX OF PAM PHOTOGRAPHS -- STUDIES ON THE TEXTS OF THE DESERT OF JUDAH.