The Hebrew of 4Q331–4Q333, line by line as Qimron prints it. The English translation, printed with this same Hebrew, is on the page Historical Texts.
Source Text: רשימת מעשי השליטים א–ג (4Q331, 4Q332, 4Q333)
The Hebrew as printed in Qimron, vol. 3, pp. 94–96. Square brackets enclose gaps and Qimron's restorations. ◦ marks an illegible letter. A dot above a letter (ׄ) marks a damaged letter read with confidence, a small circle above (֯) a doubtful reading, and a bar above (̄) a letter that could also be read as a similar one. Line numbers follow the edition. Half brackets ⸢ ⸣ mark worn or faded skin, ^ ^ a small raised letter, ׀ letters written joined, and the colon a punctuation mark in the manuscript.
4Q331 קטע 1 א
5 [ ]םׄ י◦[ ]◦
6 [ ה]כׄוׄהן אׄש֯ר כׄע֯ר֯לׄ
7 [ ]יוחנן להבי אׄתׄ
4Q331 קטע 1 ב
1 בׄןׄ[ ]
2 מׄןׄ[ ]
3 [ ]
4 [ ]
5 ◦◦◦◦[ ]
6 הׄח֯ו̄◦[ ]
7 שלמציׄוׄ[ן ]
(שוליים תחתונים)
4Q332 קטע 1
1 [ ]א בעשרׄ[ה בחודש הששי בארבעה]
2 [עשר בו ביא]תׄ ידעיה בש֯שׄה עשׄ[ר בו ]
3 [ בעשרים ]ו֯שׄבעה בחודשׄ[ השביעי ]
4 [ ] הושיב גׄו֯[אים ]
5 [ גו]אׄים וגם ◦[ ]
6 [ מ]ר֯ירי הנפש ◦[ ]
7 [ ]אׄסׄי̄רים[ ]
4Q332 קטע 2
1 [ ל]תׄת לו יקר בערבׄ[יאים ]
2 [ ת]שׄעה לשבט זה[ ]
3 [ ]ה שהוא ע֯שׄרׄיׄםׄ בחודש֯[ ]
4 [ ]◦◦וד באה שׄלמׄצׄיון אׄ[ל ]
5 [ ] להקביל אתׄ[ פני ]
6 [ביהוירי]ב הרקנוס מרד֯[ ]
7 [ ]לׄהׄקׄבׄי֯לׄ[ ]
4Q332 קטע 3
1 [ ]ב֯א֯ הׄר֯[קנוס ]
2 [ הכת]יׄאים הרג ^שׄ^[ ]
3 [ב]ח֯מׄישי בידעיה זׄהׄ[ ]
(שוליים תחתונים)
4Q333 קטע 1
1 [ שהו]א֯ עשרׄים
2 [ ]⸢ב֯ו֯⸣ :
3 [ בי]חׄזקׄאׄלׄ שהוא
4 [ ]הׄרׄגׄ אמליוס
5 [ בחוד]שׄ השביעי
6 [שהוא ב]יׄ⸢[את]⸣ גׄמול
7 [ ש]הואׄ
8 [ ]הׄרג אמליוסׄ
4Q333 קטע 2
1 [ ]איש יהודׄי׀אׄ[ ]
(שוליים תחתונים)
Source Colophon
Transcribed from the rendered pages of the CC BY 4.0 composite edition (Zenodo, 2020) of Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew Writings, vol. 3 (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi Press, 2015), pp. 94–96. Qimron's introduction: 4Q331 and the two manuscripts after it hold notes of dates and a record of the deeds of rulers, naming kings of the Hasmonean house and the Roman governor. Of 4Q331 only small, worn papyrus fragments survive, in a hand from the end of the Hasmonean period, and 4Q468a fragment 1 (Qimron, vol. 3, p. 202) may also belong to it. 4Q332 is three fragments, and 4Q333 two small fragments, in a hand of the days of Herod. First edition: Joseph Fitzmyer, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert XXXVI, pp. 275–280 (4Q331), pp. 281–286 (4Q332) and pp. 287–290 (4Q333).
Qimron's notes, in brief:
- 4Q331 fragment 1a, line 6: for כׄע֯ר֯לׄ Fitzmyer reads כול.
- 4Q331 fragment 1a, line 7: for אׄתׄ Fitzmyer reads אל◦.
- 4Q331 fragment 1b, line 5: for ◦◦◦◦ Fitzmyer reads אנוש, but the letters are not clear.
- 4Q331 fragment 1b, line 6: before the he a taw is written, which perhaps belongs to the previous column.
- 4Q332 fragment 1, line 4: גׄו֯[אים] is a new reading, fitting the traces in line 5.
- 4Q332 fragment 1, line 5: [גו]אׄים, or [כתי]אים.
- 4Q332 fragment 1, line 6: Fitzmyer read [מ]ורי, but the text seems to deal with people and not with qualities (תכונות); compare Ben Sira 11:3, "במרירי יום".
- 4Q332 fragment 2, line 4: for ◦◦וד Fitzmyer reads ביסוד, but the letter he takes as a samekh differs from the samekh in the word הרקנוס ("line 7", as printed; the word stands in line 6) and from the samekh in אסירים in fragment 1, line 7.
- 4Q332 fragment 3, line 1: ב֯א֯ הׄר֯[קנוס] is a new reading.
- 4Q332 fragment 3, line 2: [הכת]יאים, or [הג]ואים. Blank skin remains before the first letter, but the photograph shows no trace of a letter before it.
- 4Q332 fragment 3, line 3: זׄהׄ, or ה◦[ ].
- 4Q333 fragment 1, line 1: עשרים is written with a small cursive resh.
- 4Q333 fragment 1, line 4: אמליוס is the first Roman governor.
- 4Q333 fragment 2, line 1: יהודי is written with a cursive dalet, and the yod at the end of the word is joined to the aleph after it; one may read יהודיא[ים].
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