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4QExorcism ar (4Q560) —
XH≥ev/SeEschat Hymn (XH≥ev/Se 6) probably no title
c. UNIDENTIFIED TEXTS
PAM 43.682, frg. 31 (DJDXXXIII, —
161–74)
PAM 43.695, frg. 9 (DJD XXXIII, 257–
60)
—
Another twenty-eight texts preserve sections near the beginning of the book, indicating that at
one point the beginning, rather than the end, had a better chance of survival: 1QGen,
1QpaleoNum, 1QDeut a , 1QDeut b , 1QDan a , 2QExod a , 2QDeut a , 3QPs, 3QLam, 4QGen d ,
4QGen h1 , 4QGen h2 , 4QGen k , 4QLev b , 4QDeut h , 4QpaleoDeut r , 4QSam a , 4QIsa f , 4QEzek b ,
4QProv a , 4QQoh b , 4QLam, 4QDan a , 4QBarkhi Nafshi c (4Q436; cf. 4QBarkhi Nafshi a,b ),
4QInstr d (4Q418), 5QAmos, 11QDeut, 11QPs c .
The ends of twenty-nine scrolls from Qumran (3.1% of all the scrolls) and two from Masada
have been preserved; see TABLE 22. Among these texts, the ends of seven biblical texts from
Qumran (3.5% of all the biblical texts) and two from other sites have been preserved. In addition,
according to E. Schuller, DJD XI, 121, the uninscribed fragment 32 of 4QNon-Canonical Psalms
B (4Q381) may have been part of the final uninscribed sheet.
TABLE 22: Scrolls Whose Ends Have Been Preserved in Part
Name Remarks
BIBLICAL TEXTS
1QIsa a initial handle sheet
1QIsa b
4QDeut q ending with Deut 32:43
4QJudg b
4QIsa b
4QIsa c
11QpaleoLev a final handle sheet
MasDeut final handle sheet
MasPs b
NONBIBLICAL TEXTS
1QS 149 initial and final handle sheets
1QSa initial and final handle sheets
1QSb
1QpHab
1QH b (1Q35) 2 final handle sheet?
4QText with a Citation of Jubilees (4Q228) 1 150
4QpsDan c ar (4Q245)
4QD a (4Q266)
4QD d (4Q269) 16 (H. Stegemann, DJD XXXVI, 201) final handle sheet
4QD e (4Q270) 7
149 1QS, 1QSa, and 1QSb were probably rolled up together (see J. T. Milik, DJD I, 107). 1QSa was not stitched after 1QS
(disproved by the physical evidence): The stitching holes in 1QSa parallel to lines 1–8 in that scroll have no
counterparts in the well-preserved end of the last sheet of 1QS, and therefore the two texts cannot have been stitched
together. However, 1QSb could have been stitched after 1QSa. The sheet that was stitched onto the end of 1QSa
probably was not an empty handle sheet, but rather contained the first sheet of 1QSb, as a single letter or sign
(paragraphos?), not recorded in the editions, is visible on the strip preserved level with line 20 of 1QSa. The preserved
fragments of the first column of 1QSb would have belonged to this sheet. On the other hand, according to Metso,
Community Rule, 13 the three sections were part of the same scroll. See further the analysis in Martin, Scribal Hands,
I.43–56.
150 This fragment was not indicated as the end of 4Q228 by J. T. Milik and J. VanderKam, DJD XIII, 177.