A Palaeographic and Codicological (Re)assessment of the Opisthograph 4Q433a/4Q255

A consideration of both the palaeographic and material features of a scroll provides scholars the opportunity to investigate the scribal culture in which a particular manuscript emerged. This article examines the papyrus opisthograph from Qumran containing 4QpapHodayot-like Text B, 4Q433a, and 4Qpap...

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Autore principale: Aksu, Ayhan (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Brill [2019]
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Anno: 2019, Volume: 26, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 170-188
(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B 4Q433a / 4Q255 / Paleografia / Codicologia
Notazioni IxTheo:HD Medio-giudaismo
HH Archeologia
Altre parole chiave:B personal copy
B opisthograph
B Codicology
B Dead Sea Scrolls
B Palaeography
B Scribal Practices
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Riepilogo:A consideration of both the palaeographic and material features of a scroll provides scholars the opportunity to investigate the scribal culture in which a particular manuscript emerged. This article examines the papyrus opisthograph from Qumran containing 4QpapHodayot-like Text B, 4Q433a, and 4QpapSerekh ha-Yaḥada, 4Q255, on either side. There has been scholarly disagreement about this opisthograph with regard to a number of questions: (1) which of the two compositions was inscribed on the recto, (2) how the two compositions should be dated, and (3) which of the two texts was written first. This article looks at both compositions by means of palaeography and codicology. From this combined approach I deduce that 4Q433a was written first, on the recto of this papyrus manuscript. 4Q255 was added later, on the verso. Both compositions can be dated to the early first century BCE. This reconstruction makes it plausible that 4Q255 was a personal copy.
ISSN:1568-5179
Comprende:Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341501