At 1:56 PM -0600 11/25/96, Stephen C. Carlson wrote: >At 02:04 11/25/96 -0500, Jonathan Robie wrote: >>How do I get the Greek text for excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls? > >You generally cannot, aside from a few fragments from Cave 7, because >they were written Hebrew. >>I would love to see the Greek text to which he refers. My Bible doesn't have >>a QH in it... > >If you Danker closely enough, you will find that he does not refer to a >Greek text. Instead, 1QH is the "Thanksgiving Hymns" from the Qumran >Cave 1. Other texts from the cave are 1QS (The Manual of Discipline), >1QSa (the Messianic Rule), 1QM (the War Scroll), and 1QpHab (the Habakkuk >pesher). And just to piggy-back (I learned yesterday that the original form of that term is "pick-a-back": is that news to anyone else besides me?) onto Stephen's note: you can find further info, including, I believe, a translation of the "Thanksgiving Hymns" at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/Library/library.html Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics, Washington University One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, USA 63130 (314) 935-4018 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwc@oui.com WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/ authors with the help of 3 collaborators. This work makes the third volume of the series "Anejos del Diccionario Griego-Espan~ol", and it is closely related with the work of the *DGE* team. Although not only oriented to B-Greek, the book does contain a wealth of information of interest for B-Greekers. As an example, there are 9 bibliographic references under the lemma PROSKUNEW; 26 under PISTIS; 6 under TAMIEION; 7 under HOMOLOGIA and nothing less than 84 under LOGOS (it happens to be the most cited Greek word) to quote only some of the words under discussion in the List during the last weeks. Full bibliographical reference: Boned Colera, Pilar, and Juan Rodr'iguez Somolinos. 1998. "Repertorio Bibliogr'afico de la Lexicograf'ia Griega," Anejos del Diccionario Griego-Espan~ol III. Madrid: CSIC. (in-4¼) pp. XX + 540, ISBN: 84-00-07722-9 The book appears at a promotional price of Spanish Pta. 5,000 (circa US $ 32.5, DM 59) taxes included, plus shipping costs. Orders can be addressed by e-mail to the "Servicio de Publicaciones del CSIC" < or by surface mail at: Servicio de Publicaciones del CSIC c. Vitrubio 8 28008 Madrid (Espan^a) Telephone: 91-5629633 Fax: 91-5629634 ___________________________________________________________________ Daniel Rian~o Rufilanchas c. Santa Engracia 52, 7 dcha. 28010-Madrid, Espan~a --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to unsubscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu