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480 THE APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA
Boismard, presented the one small fragment as part of the Greek text of
the Letter of Jeremiah. The preserved letters and words, distributed over
five lines, come from vv. 43b–44. The lines with the largest number of
letters are 3 and 4, both of which have seven. The text is written in uncial
letters without breaks between words; the manuscript hand dates from ca.
100 B.C.E. 46 Baillet writes that in lines 3–5 one finds a sentence that recurs
frequently in the letter in varied forms; the one it takes in 7Q2 is the one
attested in the Lucianic and Syriac versions, not the one in the LXX.
Some skepticism should be in order for the identification of this fragment,
since there is no distinctive word on it (the only two fully extant
words are ou}n and au0tou&j).
B. BOOKS OR SECTIONSOFTHETRADITIONAL
PSEUDEPIGRAPHA FOUND AT QUMRAN
Of the texts traditionally designated the Pseudepigrapha of the Old
Testament only two have surfaced at Qumran, while a third is in a sense
represented but not in its familiar form. In the following sections the
information found in the scrolls for 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and texts having
some relation with the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs will be presented
and issues that arise from the data will be raised. Perhaps the largest
issue is why so few of the previously known Jewish Pseudepigrapha
found their way to the Qumran caves. One obvious reason is that most
of them were written too late to be part of the Qumran library. Works
such as 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch certainly postdate C.E. 70, as do the Adam-
Eve texts. Of the remaining ones, there are perhaps not too many that
we would expect to find at Qumran. It is unlikely (although obviously
possible), for example, that Greek texts would turn up there, and of
course some of the Pseudepigrapha are notoriously difficult to date.
Moreover, some of the Pseudepigrapha in Charlesworth’s sense of the
term belong to very different streams of Judaism than the one represented
in the scrolls (Letter of Aristeas, Ahiqar, 4 Maccabees, Pseudo-Phocylides,
and others). While few of the familiar Pseudepigrapha have turned
up at Qumran, many more that would qualify for the category but were
46. Maurice Baillet, “Lettre de Jérémie,” in Les ‘Petites Grottes’ de Qumrân (ed. M.
Baillet, J. T. Milik, and R. de Vaux; DJD 3; Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), 143. Cf. the
very brief comments in Carey A. Moore, Daniel, Esther and Jeremiah: The Additions (AB
44; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977), 349.