Monday, June 4, 2018

Naḥal Ḥever Minor Prophets Scroll: Digital Images

Digital images of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Naḥal Ḥever are available at the Leon Levy DSS Digital Library website here, but (as with all the digital images there) they can be a little hard to navigate because there's no index. Each image does contain a plate number that corresponds—not to the plate numbers of the DJD edition, but—to the inventory number of the Palestine Archaeological Museum, which are noted in parentheses on the plates of the DJD edition. These numbers were a help in matching the digital image to the corresponding DJD plates.

I have been able to find in the digital images every piece of the scroll represented on the plates in the DJD edition, except for fragments 1–5 of the Additional Fragments on Plate XX, though I didn't expend much energy searching for these additional fragments. I have gone through all 111 images available at the website, though I ignored some small pieces in the images that I couldn't readily identify in the DJD plates.

The following index is arranged according to the plates in the DJD edition (vol. 8, ed. E. Tov, 1990). I am not sure why there are so many high quality images available online for certain fragments and not for others. Personally, I would much appreciate better images for column 2.

Plate 1: col. 2–4 (B&W)

Plate 2: Col. 2, Jonah 1:14–2:7


Plate 3: Col 3, Jonah 3:2–4:5


Plate 4: Col. 4, Micah 1:1–7


Plate 4: Col. 5, Micah 1:7–8


Plate 5: Col. 6, Micah 2:7–9; 3:4–6


Plate 5: Col. 7, Micah 4:3–5


Plate 6: Col. 8, Micah 4:6–10, 5:1–4


Plate 7: Col. 9, Micah 5:4–7


Plate 7: Col. 13, Nahum 1:13–14


Plate 8: Col. 14, Nahum 2:5–10, 13–14; 3:3


Plate 9: Col. 15, Nahum 3:6–17


Plate 10: Col. 16, Habakkuk 1:5–11


Plate 11: Col. 17, Habakkuk 1:14–2:8


Plate 12: Col. 18, Habakkuk 2:13–20


Plate 13: Col. 19, Habakkuk 3:8–15


Plate 14: Col. 20, Zephaniah 1:1–6


Plate 15: Col. 21, Zephaniah 1:13–18


Plate 15: Col. 22–23, Zephaniah 2:9–10 \\ Zephaniah 3:6–7


Plate 16: Col. 28–29, Zechariah 1:1–4 \\ Zechariah 1:12–14


Plate 17: Col. 30–31, Zechariah 2:1–4; 2:7–12 \\ Zechariah 2:16–3:2; 3:3–7


Plate 18: Col. 17–23 (color, upside down)

Plate 19: Col. B1–2, Zechariah 8:19–21; 23 \\ Zechariah 8:23–9:5


Plate 20: Additional Fragments
Fragments I can’t find in the DJD plates:
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3 comments:

Seth Folkers said...

How does Habakkuk 2:3-4 compare with the MT and the LXX in this scroll? Has it been brought into conformity with the Hebrew? Or does it still reflect the Greek rendering as quoted in Heb. 10? I know that some words are missing, but it looked like there may still be enough for that determination?

July 27, 2020 at 12:39 PM
Ed Gallagher said...

This scroll matches the MT very closely. I'm particularly thinking of the end of Hab 2:4. Here's the relevant image: https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/image/B-499709. About halfway down the left column, where the contours of the preserved scroll starts to have more material on the right side of the column than on the left side (if that makes sense), you can see ΕΝ ΠΙΣΤΕΙ ΑΥΤΟΥ ΖΗΣΕ[ΤΑΙ. (The DJD editors think you can also see the tau, but I can't.) Hope that helps!

July 27, 2020 at 3:30 PM
Seth Folkers said...

Thanks for taking the time to respond. That was helpful!

July 28, 2020 at 3:04 PM

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