SCRIBAL PRACTICES AND APPROACHE S ... - Emanuel Tov
SCRIBAL PRACTICES AND APPROACHE S ... - Emanuel Tov
SCRIBAL PRACTICES AND APPROACHE S ... - Emanuel Tov
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Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts from the Judean Desert 185<br />
cancel it, and continued to copy the correct word twam. Only at a later stage was the . Upon realizing that he had written these words too early in<br />
the sentence, the scribe canceled them with dots above and below the letters, and wrote them a little later.<br />
The practice of using cancellation dots is evidenced in fifty-two biblical and nonbiblical texts<br />
written in the Qumran scribal practice, eight texts not written in that system, six texts of unclear<br />
orthographic practice, and three Aramaic texts. 242 These dots are found more frequently in<br />
nonbiblical than in biblical texts.<br />
Biblical Texts<br />
1QIsa a scribes A and B: see above and Martin, Scribal Character, I.154–71; Kutscher, Language, 531–6<br />
4QDeut c 12–15 4 (Deut 11:10)<br />
4QDeut j VIII 8 (Deut 11:10)<br />
4QSam c II 17 (2 Sam 14:32)<br />
4QXII c 34 3 (Zeph 3:1)<br />
4QXII e 14–15 2 (Zech 5:9)<br />
11QPs a : see above and J. A. Sanders, DJD IV, 13<br />
Nonbiblical Texts<br />
1QH a : see above, especially TABLES 13, 14 and Martin, Scribal Character, I.148–50<br />
1QS: see above, especially TABLES 13, 14 and Martin, Scribal Character, I.144–8<br />
1QSa I 16<br />
1QM III 4; IV 6; XI 8<br />
1QDM (1Q22) III 10<br />
1QpHab II 10, 16; IV 6; VII 2, 2; VIII 14<br />
4QTanh≥ (4Q176) 10 17; 14 3, 4; 26 4<br />
4QCatena A (4Q177) 1–4 15 and 5–6 12<br />
4QTime of Righteousness (4Q215a) 1 ii 9<br />
4QJub g (4Q222) 1 1, 4, 5<br />
4QpapJub h (4Q223–224) unit 2, IV 10 (unclear dot)<br />
4QPsJub a (4Q225) 2 i 6<br />
4QD a (4Q266) 2 i 24; 3 ii 3; 5 ii 10; 6 i 11; 11 16<br />
4QD f (4Q271) 3 11; 4 ii 4; 5 i 5<br />
4QToh A (4Q274) 3 ii 8 (Qumran orthography unclear)<br />
4QBer a (4Q286) 1 ii 6<br />
4QBer b (4Q287) 9 13<br />
4QBer d (4Q289) 2 3<br />
4QMyst c ? (4Q301) 2 1<br />
4QCal Doc/Mish C (4Q321a) 7 (col. V) 7<br />
4QRP b (4Q364) 17 3<br />
4QRP c (4Q365) passim: see above and E. <strong>Tov</strong> and S. White, DJD XIII, 259<br />
4QT a ? (4Q365a) 2 ii 4; 3 2<br />
4QPrayer of Enosh (4Q369) 2 2<br />
4QCommunal Confession (4Q393) 3–7 8<br />
4QMMT c (4Q396) 1–2 iii 5, 6, 9<br />
4QMMT d (4Q397) 1–2 3<br />
241 Therefore, it is unlikely that the scribe first erased the