Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever
The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXII gr) is a non-Septuagint manuscript dated to the 1st century CE. The manuscripts is kept in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. It was first published by Dominique Barthélemy in 1963. The Rahlfs-Siglum is 943.
Discovery
Parts of the manuscript were found by an expedition of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the early sixties in cave No. 8 in Nahal Hever (Judean Desert) named Cave of Horror. Other fragments had been purchased a decade earlier from beduins. For those the siglum Se2grXII was used.
Description
It is a roll of skin that contains the books of Minor Prophets in a direct translation from a Masoretic text type manuscript into the Greek, i.e. not part of the Septuagint tradition.[1] Rather, it "attests the recension commonly referred to as Proto-Theodotion or καιγε".[2] Like other ancient non-Septuagint translations it contains the Tetragrammaton in paleo-Hebrew script.
References
Bibliography
- Dominique Barthélemy: Les devanciers d’Aquila. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 10. Leiden 1963.
- Emanuel Tov (1990). Discoveries in the Judean Desert: VIII. The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-198263272.