8HevXII a

Hab 2-3 (Scroll/Hand A), lower part of col. 18 (according to E. Tov) of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever. The arrow points at the divine name in paleo-Hebrew script

8HevXIIa (LXXVTS10a, Rahlfs 943a) is an early fragment of a koine greek manuscript translated from the masoretic text, (kaige revision). The fragments Se2grXII, 8HevXII a and 8HevXII b complete the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (today as 8HevXII gr, vh285 and LBDA 3457). Dated to the end of the first century C.E, this manuscript was discovered in the Judean Desert.

Description

This is a scroll of skin containing some book of the Minor Prophets. The parchment has the Tetragrammaton at following places of the Hebrew bible: Jonas 4,2; Micheas 1,1.3; 4,4.5.7; 5,4 (x2); Habakkuk 2,14.16.20; 3,9; Zephaniah 1,3.14; 2,10; Zechariah 1,3 (x2).4; 3,5.6.7. This fragments of the scroll was published in 1963 by Ernst Würthwein in Supplements to Vetus Testamentum. ^[1]

Its name LXXVTS10 a comes from

LXX= Septuagint
VTS= Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
10= volume
a= Scroll/Hand A

Actual location

Today is kept in the Rockefeller Museum.

References

↑ Ernst Würthwein (1963). Supplements to Vetus Testamentum X. Leiden: E.J. Brill. pp. 170–178.

Bibliography

Emanuel Tov (1990). Discoveries in the Judean Desert: VIII. The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXIIgr). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. plate XIX. ISBN 978-0198263272.
Dominique Barthélemy (1963). Les devanciers d'Aquila (in French). Leiden. p. 18–29.

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