4Q Pesher Nahum4Q Pesher Nahum has long been considered one of the most important Qumran texts for understanding the historical context of the Scrolls. Doudna's comprehensive critical edition presents new readings and undertakes extensive analysis and reconstruction of broken text. Areas of focus include text-critical implications, scribal practices, and formal and composition patterns common throughout the Qumran pesharim. An outcome of this work sure to attract attention is its demonstration that the mysterious 'Lion of Wrath' figure of the text is not the Hasmonaean king Alexander Jannaeus, as almost universally held. Rather, Pesher Nahum portrays a coming conquest from the 'Kittim', and the 'Lion of Wrath' is a Nebuchadnezzar-like foreign invader coming to deliver the wrath of God on a sinful Israel. There is also an Appendix: 'Was Hyrcanus II the Teacher of Righteousness and Were the Scrolls Deposited in the Caves near Qumran in 40 bce?' |
Common terms and phrases
1QpHab 4QpHos 4QpPs Alexander Jannaeus Allegro anomalous antecedent appears attested Berrin biblical Hebrew clause Compare context correct crack crucifixions defaced Demetrius direct object downstroke dry line Dupont-Sommer 1963 early line ending elsewhere in 4QpNah end of line Ephraim expected expression Frag fragment García Martínez 1994 hiphil Horgan imperfect verbs imprecation interlinear interpretation Israel Jerusalem Judah kings of Yavan Kittim lacuna lamedh letter line 11 line 9 Lion of Wrath long vacat Manasseh mark masculine Mishnaic Hebrew noted noun P/Q Ø parallel participle pesharim Pesher Nahum photographs phrase plural position possible preceding prefixed present column priests pronoun proposed Q/P transitions Qumran texts quotation from Nah reading reconstruction rendered restored right margin rulers scribal scribe scroll Seekers-after-Smooth-Things seems sense sentence singular speck spelling structure Strugnell 1970 syntactic Type unit variant verb visible wicked wordplay Yadin Yahweh