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160 EXCERPTED MANUSCRIPTS AT QUMRAN
TABLES 204
Table 1. List of Excerpted and Abbreviated Manuscripts at Qumran 205
Text Contents Number of Date 207 Remarks
lines extant
(height) 206
Testimonia Exod 20:21; Num 30 lines 125–75 For Exod
(4Q175) 24:15–17; Deut B.C.E. 20:21b, cf.
33:8–11; Josh 6:26 SamP and
from Apocryphon of MT Deut
Joshua b (4Q379) 5:28b–29 +
frag. 22 2.7–14 18:18–19 208
Phylacteries Contents vary Line Dates
and mezuzot counts vary
(1Q13; vary
4Q128–155;
5Q8; 8Q3–4;
XQ1–4)
204. The first footnote per table provides important bibliographical data. The studies
that have provided the bases for these tables have been rounded out, esp., by the
lists in Emanuel Tov et al., eds., The Text from the Judaean Desert: Indices and an
Introduction to the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series (DJD 39; Oxford: Clarendon,
2002). The data provided in the following tables, as is true for virtually every listing
pertaining to the Scrolls, is provisional and subject to modification. Note the sigla
employed: * = reconstructed; Ø = not extant; ??? = reconstruction not attempted; (?)
= status or identification as excerpted or abbreviated manuscript uncertain.
205. Much of this list follows Tov, “Excerpted and Abbreviated,” 581–600, but it
has been updated and adjusted by comparison with the editions in DJD; Flint, The
Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls; and Duncan, “Excerpted Texts,” 43–62. For sigla, see note 204
above.
206. The line count given for each document is the maximum number of lines
extant for that scroll on any preserved fragment or column regardless of editorial
reconstructions or the existence of margins (for these latter, cf. Tov, “Dimensions,”
69–91). In a few cases, the absolute height of the scroll is given, including margins
(see ibid., 77–91).
207. Per note 111 above, dates follow Webster, “J. Chronological Index,” 351–446,
esp. 371–75.
208. Note Ulrich, “The Text of the Hebrew Scriptures,” 87n2, who points out (apud
B. J. Pitre) that an expanded form of Exod 20:21, similar to this one, is also found in
4Q158 frag. 6 (4QReworked Pentateuch a ).