Scribal Practice, Text and Canon in the Dead Sea Scrolls

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Biography, and The Invention of Judaism. Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul.Ananda Geyser-Fouché is Senior Lecturer of Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. She has published peer-reviewed articles in academic renowned journals and was the sub-editor of the bundle in HTS Theological Studies Original Research: Special Collection Qumran Texts, 2016.

• PrefaceFigures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPeter Flint in MemoriamAnanda Geyser-Fouché and John J. CollinsPART 1: Text and Canon1 Qumran Evidence for the Text and Canon of the BibleEugene C. UlrichPart 2: Text-Critical Studies2 Hebrew Bible Textual Criticism and the Dead Sea Scrolls: What Not to Expect of the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab)Gert T. M. Prinsloo3 4QLXXNum and a Text-Critical Examination of a Debated Hebrew Term in Numbers 4Gideon R. Kotzé4 The Ezekiel Manuscripts from the Dead Sea, the Ancient Versions, and the Textual History of EzekielHerrie van Rooy5 On “True” Editions: Pluriformity and Authority between Psalms and SerekhJames Nati6 A Textual Analysis of Pseudo-Ezekiel (4Q385 and 4Q386): Rewritten or Merely Copies of Each OtherJana Coetzee7 Nebuchadnezzar Found and Forgotten: a New Fragment of 4Q385a (4QApocryphon of Jeremiah Ca) 18 iEibert TigchelaarPart 3: Canon and Authority8 Uses of Earlier Literature in Some Second Temple TextsJames C. VanderKam9 An Examination of the Songs of Ascents and Psalm 119 in 11QPsaNancy L. deClaissé-WalfordPart 4: Scribal Practice10 Qumran Scribal Practice: Won Moor ThymeMartin Abegg11 The Grain of the Kittim in the Habakkuk Pesher: a New Reading of ורב ולכאמו (1QpHab 6:5)Timothy H. Lim12 The Vistas of Variant Readings: Towards an Understanding of Scribal Transmission as Reception in the Qumran Fragments of Aramaic DanielAndrew B. Perrin13 Exegesis of the Bible Enriched by the Dead Sea ScrollsEmanuel Tov14 The Excerpted Manuscripts from Qumran, with Special Attention to 4QReworked Pentateuch D and 4QReworked Pentateuch ESidnie White CrawfordPart 5: Language15 Trajectories of Diachronic Change in Qumran Hebrew: Evidence from the Negative Existential in Post-Predicate PositionJacobus A. Naudé, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé, and Daniel J. WilsonPart 6: Thematic Studies16 The Star of Balaam and the Prophecy of Josephus concerning VespasianCraig A. Evans17 Lady Metaphors in Judaic Wisdom LiteratureAnanda Geyser-FouchéIndex

This memorial volume does justice to the memory of Peter Flint as an accomplished Qumran scholar, and the volume provides non-Qumran specialists a thoughtful and wideranging survey of the lay of the research landscape related to Dead Sea Scroll studies and enough minutiae to titillate the palate of the specialists. The editors and publisher deserve praise for a well-presented manuscript that can seriously be considered for both private and library bookshelves.Hendrik Bosman, SBL Review of Biblical Literature, 2020This is a fascinating assembly of detailed studies, intersecting throughout with Flint’s own interests and engaging repeatedly with his work. Taken together with the 2017 collection, these two memorial volumes form a worthy tribute to the man himself.Matthew A. Collins, SOTS Review