4Q108

4Q108

4Q108 (or 4QCantc) is a fragment containing a portion of the Song of Songs in Hebrew. Fragments from three such scrolls were found in Cave 4 at Qumran. These, and 6Q6 from Cave 6, comprise the total witness to the Song from the Dead Sea Scrolls, known so far.

Identification

It is evident that 4Q108 is not from the other two manuscripts of the Song found in the cave. The last two words of Song 3:7, "g'bore Israel" ("warriors of Israel") are already accounted for in 4Q106; and the letters of 4Q107 are formed by an observably different hand to 4Q108. The manner of composition () of the letters "aleph" and "shin" differs between the manuscripts. Additionally, the lacuna in the second column of 4Q107 does not provide enough space to accommodate 4Q108.

Contents

4Q108 is a "tiny fragment" [Eugene Charles Ulrich and others (eds), "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume XVI: [http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198269434 Psalms to Chronicles: Qumran Cave 4.XI",] (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001): 219. ISBN 978-0-19-826943-4] containing only ten letters from two lines — five letters each from verses seven and eight of chapter three. The five letters from verse seven are: למה "lmh", the last three letters of the name "Solomon"; and שש "šš" ("shesh"), the "six" in the word "sixty". The five letters from verse eight are a single word אחוזי "aḥuzi", the passive participle of the verb meaning "grasp". So 4Q108 reads:
* [7Behold the seat of So] lomon six [ty warriors surrounding it, from the warriors of]
* [Israel, 8all of them] equipped [with sword ...]

Features

*The Masoretic Text spells the verb of verse seven with only four letters; 4Q108, however, contains a consonant ("vav") representing one of the distinctive vowels (IPA2|u) of the passive participle.
*The passive construction used here — "aḥuzi ḥereb" (grasped of sword) — is not unique to either the Song (see Ezekiel 43:6) or to Hebrew. [Y Blau, "Leshonenu" 18 (1950-1952): 67-81. he icon]

ee also

*Biblical manuscript
*Tanakh at Qumran

References

External links

*Emanuel Tov. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/k274152867p72314 'A Categorized List of All the "Biblical Texts" Found in the Judean Desert.'] "Dead Sea Discoveries" 8 (2001): 67-84.


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