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Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts from the Judean Desert 25
Small and extensive changes introduced in the course of the creative reshaping of the biblical
text were illustrated by Talmon 45 and in Tov, TCHB, 258–84, while the collecting of such changes
for the nonbiblical texts has just begun. Much material relating to layers of editorial changes is
reflected in the differences between the overlapping segments of several of the Qumran
compositions transmitted in multiple copies, for which see TABLE 3 (for a more extensive list of
these overlaps, see E. J. C. Tigchelaar, “Annotated Lists of Internal Overlaps and Parallels in the
Non-biblical Texts from Qumran and Masada,” DJD XXXIX, 285–322).
TABLE 3: Major Overlaps of Qumran Compositions
Community Rule One well-preserved copy (1QS); further: 4QSa–j (DJD XXVI), 5QS (5Q11).
Instruction 1QInstr (1Q26); 4QInstra–g (DJD XXXIV).
War Scroll One well-preserved copy (1QM); further: 4QMa–f (DJD VII).
Hodayot One well-preserved copy (1QHa ); also: 1QHb (1Q35), 4QHa–f (DJD XXIX).
Damascus Document Two well-preserved copies found in the Cairo Genizah (CD, manuscripts A and
B); further: 4QDa–h (DJD XVIII).
Miqs≥at Ma>as;e ha-Torah 4QMMTa–f (DJD X); possibly also 4QcryptA Miqs≥at Ma>as;e ha-Torahg ?
(4Q313; DJD XXXVI).
4QMishmarot/Cal. Docs. 4Q320–330 (DJD XXI).
4QDibre Hame