New Blog! 4QSam^a Identification

New Blog! 4QSam^a Identification

As has been mentioned previously, I’ve finally got around to finishing a blog post on a newly identified fragment in the extensive Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript 4QSam^a (also known as 4Q51 Samuel^a).

Along with this, there’s been some corrections / updates to the following:
4Q51_1samuela.pdf;
4Q51_2samuala.pdf;
4Q51samuela_(4QSama)_Full.pdf;
DSS_2Samuel.pdf;
DeadSeaScrolls_Complete_Collection.zip;
DSS_Genesis.pdf;
TC_Edition_Full.pdf.

Give the main blog post a read over here 🙂

New Fragment Identification: 4QSam^a

During the time when I was producing the Dead Sea Scrolls – Image Sources page, it gave me a great opportunity to check the manuscript images again, especially as they had uploaded some better, more up-to-date images than what was previously available to the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library (LLDSSDL). I will obviously be going back again (and again, and again!), but I was very happy to see, and subsequently identify, a never-before-published fragment of 4QSam^a (4^th Qumran Cave, Samuel Manuscript A), regarding which I will now discuss.

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