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/