Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Volume XXXIX: Introduction and Indexes

by Tov, Emanuel

• ISBN13: 9780199249244
• ISBN10: 0199249245
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Composed at the end of the editorial process, this volume provides a general overview of and introduction to the thirty-eight volumes of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series published from 1951 onwards by Oxford University Press. It contains a general description of the series and itseditorial principles, as well as different indexes: several lists of the texts found in the Judaean desert, a list of scribal notations, annotated lists of internal overlaps and parallels, the texts found in the Judaean desert arranged by their presumed dates, and a concordance of the propernames.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
The Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series: History and System of Presentation	1	(26)
E. Tov
List of the Texts from the Judaean Desert	27	(88)
E. Tov
S. J. Pfann
Annotated List of the Texts from the Judaean Desert Classified by Content and Genre	115	(88)
A. Lange
U. Mittmann-Richert
The Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert
Categorized List of the `Biblical Texts'	165	(20)
E. Tov
Index of Passages in the `Biblical Texts'	185	(18)
E. Ulrich
Lists of Specific Groups of Texts from the Judaean Desert	203	(26)
E. Tov
Papyrus Texts
Opisthographs
Palaeo-Hebrew Texts
Greek Texts
Aramaic Texts
Nabataean Texts
Texts in Cryptic Scripts
Concordance of Proper Nouns in the Non-biblical Texts from Qumran	229	(56)
M. G. Abegg, Jr.
Annotated Lists of Overlaps and Parallels in the Non-biblical Texts from Qumran and Masada	285	(38)
E. J. C. Tigchelaar
Scribal Notations in the Texts from the Judaean Desert	323	(28)
E. Tov
Chronological Index of the Texts from the Judaean Desert	351	(96)
B. Webster
Abbreviations	447