4Q106
4Q106 (or 4QCanta) is one large and three small fragments from three columns of a scroll containing portions of the
Song of Songs (3:4-5, 7–11; 4:1–7; 6:11?-12; 7:1-7) in Hebrew.[1][2][3] It is one of three scrolls found in Cave 4 at Qumran that have been reconstructed as copies of the Song of Songs. These, and 6Q6 from Cave 6, comprise the total witness to the Song from the Dead Sea Scrolls
, known so far.
Description
The
Herodian.[5]
Contents
The large fragment and one of the small fragments provide the bulk of the surviving text — from column II. The two other small fragments are from columns I and III. What can be reconstructed from column I is: Song 3:4–5[5]
- [3:4... I grasped him and did no]t let him go until [I brought him to my mother's house, and into]
- [the room of the woman who conceived me. 5I charge y]ou daughters [of Jerusalem ...]
From column II can be read:[6][7]
From column III can be read:[7]
See also
- List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts
- 4Q107 = 4QCantb
- 4Q108 = 4QCantc
- 6Q6 = 6QCant
- Tanakh at Qumran
References
- ISBN 9789004181830. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Dead sea scrolls - Song of Songs.
- ISBN 9780802862419. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- ^ Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XVIII, p. 199.
- ^ a b DJD 18: 199.
- ^ DJD 18: 202.
- ^ a b Florentino García Martínez, Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition: 1Q1-4Q273
Literature
- Yardeni, Ada. The Book of Hebrew Script. The British Library: London, 2002. ISBN 1-58456-087-8.
External links
- Emanuel Tov. 'A Categorized List of All the "Biblical Texts" Found in the Judean Desert.' Dead Sea Discoveries 8 (2001): 67-84.
- 4Q106 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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