RT Article
T1 Getting a Handle on 1QIsaiahb: A New Proposal for the So-Called Handle Sheet of 1QHodayota
JF Dead Sea discoveries
VO 29
IS 1
SP 1
OP 26
A1 Johnson, Michael B.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1796121568
AB This article examines Hartmut Stegemann’s preliminary proposal that the remains of the beginning handle sheet of 1QHa have survived and provide useful data for reconstructing the scroll. According to Stegemann, this handle sheet supplies critical material evidence that three columns existed before 1QHa 4, the first substantially extant column in the manuscript. The handle sheet was recovered from one of three scrolls, 1QM, 1QIsab, and 1QHa. Each of these possibilities is considered, and a new proposal that the handle sheet belongs to the end of 1QIsab is advanced. The article offers a tentative reconstruction of the handle sheet as part of 1QIsab to demonstrate its material continuity with col. 28 of 1QIsab.
K1 1QHa
K1 material reconstruction
K1 1QHodayota
K1 1QIsaiahb
K1 handle sheet
DO 10.1163/15685179-bja10019