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164 EXCERPTED MANUSCRIPTS AT QUMRAN
Table 1, cont.
Text Contents Number of
lines extant
(height)
Date Remarks
4QDane Dan 9:12–17 6 lines 150–100 Probably only
(4Q116) (6.1 cm.) (–75) a portion of
(?) 214 B.C.E. Daniel
(9:4b–19?) on
the scroll
Others? 215
Table 2. Size of Qumran Manuscripts of the Megillot 216
Per Column Margin Size (in cm.) Height (in cm.)
Text Lines Letter- Bottom Top Inter- Writing Scroll
spaces columnar
4QCanta (4Q106) 14 54 1.5 1.3 1.1 6.5 9.3
4QCantb (4Q107) 14–15 37–40 1.0 0.7 1.0 8.2 9.9
4QCantc (4Q108) 2 38* Fragmentary
6QCant (6Q6) 7 39 1.4 1.4 1.7 5.0 7.8217 214. See the comments by Eugene Ulrich, “4QDan e ,” in Qumran Cave 4.XI: Psalms to
Chronicles (ed. E. Ulrich et al.; DJD 16; Oxford: Clarendon, 2000), 287.
215. Given some of the theoretical issues raised in the body of the paper, it is possible
that more texts could be excerpted or abbreviated. As two examples, I refer to
the work of Tov (“Excerpted and Abbreviated,” 594–95) who has posited that eight
collections that manifest different sequences from and/or additional material to the
MT might be excerpted or abbreviated (11QPs a [11Q5], also reflected in 4QPs e
[4Q87], 11QPs b [11Q6], and perhaps 4QPs b [4Q84; see above]; 4QPs a [4Q83];
4QPs d [4Q86]; 4QPs f [4Q88]; 4QPs k [4Q92]; 4QPs n [4Q95; see above]; 4QPs q
[4Q98]; and 11QapPs a [11Q11]); and Brooke (“Ezekiel in Some Qumran and New
Testament Texts,” 318) who has raised the possibility that 3Q1 might be excerpted.
216. The listing follows Tov, “106–108. Introduction to 4QCant a–c ,” 197; idem,
“Dimensions,” 69–91; idem, “Three Manuscripts,” 90–91; and Pfann, “4Q298,”
213n14. Some of the data in these lists is now outdated and has been updated by comparison
with editions in DJD. For sigla, see note 204 above.
217. Tov, “Dimensions,” 72 gives 2.90m as the reconstructed length (see Maurice
Baillet, “6. Cantique des Cantiques,” in Les “Petites Grottes” de Qumrân [ed. M. Baillet,
J. T. Milik, and R. de Vaux; DJD 3; Oxford: Clarendon, 1962], 113).