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JAMES C. VANDERKAM 491<br />

text deal with two separate narrative units. <strong>The</strong> first is <strong>the</strong> birth <strong>and</strong> naming<br />

of Bilhah. <strong>The</strong> second part of <strong>the</strong> surviving text, separated from <strong>the</strong><br />

preceding by a blank line, relates how Laban gave Hannah, Bilhah’s<br />

mo<strong>the</strong>r, to Jacob <strong>and</strong> also mentions <strong>the</strong> birth of Dan.” 83 <strong>The</strong> first part has<br />

some parallels in <strong>the</strong> Greek Testament of Naphtali 1:6–8 but is not a copy of<br />

that text; <strong>the</strong> second part has no parallel in <strong>the</strong> Testament of Naphtali.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se works from Qumran show that <strong>the</strong> Greek Testaments of <strong>the</strong> Twelve<br />

Patriarchs was based, at least in some cases, on Semitic sources that date<br />

from pre-Christian times. <strong>The</strong> situation here may parallel that for some<br />

Qumran fragments about Ezekiel that seem to have served as sources for<br />

later works about <strong>the</strong> prophet of <strong>the</strong> exile.<br />

83. Ibid., 73.

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