Tag: sectarian manuscripts

• Martin G. Abegg on Electronic Dead Sea Scrolls

  One person stands behind all electronic versions of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Martin G. Abegg, professor and co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University. His name and infamous Mac computer are mentioned in almost every history of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but we wanted to give him the opportunity to tell […]

  Brian Davidson

  September 20, 2013

  Accordance, Aramaic, Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew, Productivity

  Bible Software, BibleWorks, biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, Ken Penner, Logos, Logos Bible Software, Martin Abegg, Martin G- Abbeg, sectarian manuscripts

• ‘Warning’ or ‘Turning’ in Isaiah 8.11

  This text-critical problem has been my hobby horse for a while now. I’ve posted on the problem before, but since then I have changed my mind and completely reworked my paper as a critique of the solution offered by the Comité pour l’analyse textuelle de l’Ancien Testament hébru. I presented this last semester in the […]

  Brian Davidson

  June 30, 2013

  Aramaic, Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek, Hebrew, PhD

  biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, Canon, Dominique Barthélemy, Isaiah, Isaiah 8:11, Masoretic Text, sectarian manuscripts, Septuagint, Textual Criticism

• Weston Fields’ Full History of the DSS, vol. 1

  I just read the last page of Weston Fields’ The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History, and I want to share a few reflections in order to bring this book to your attention if you do not already know about it and, hopefully, to motivate you to pick it up in the near future. I have […]

  Brian Davidson

  August 8, 2012

  Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew

  biblical Dead Sea Scrolls, sectarian manuscripts, Weston Fields

• 4Q174 and Isaiah 8:11

  What value have the non-biblical Dead Sea Scrolls for the biblical scholar? The document linked below provides just one example. While researching for a paper on Isaiah 8:11-22, I became quite captivated by a textual problem in Isaiah 8:11 (BHS 8:11 “b”). Working on this problem piqued within me an interest in the non-biblical Dead […]

  Brian Davidson

  July 21, 2012

  Aramaic, Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek, Hebrew, PhD

  qsm, sectarian manuscripts