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A Visit with M. Jozef T. Milik, Dead Sea Scroll Editor

By Joseph A. Fitzmyer

It had been almost 32 years since I last saw Jozef T. Milik. We were in Jerusalem, and we had both been working on the Dead Sea Scrolls. My work consisted of helping to prepare a concordance of the non-Biblical texts from Cave 4 by placing each word of these texts on a 4-by-5 card with a notation as to where it appeared. Milik, a Polish scholar, was a member of the international and interconfessional team set up in 1952 to piece together, study and publish the thousands of fragments recovered from Qumran Cave 4 earlier that year. Because […]

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Footnotes

1.

See “Dead Sea Scroll Concordance Now Available for Use by Scholars,” BAR 16:02.

2.

See “An Unpublished Dead Sea Scroll Text Parallels Luke’s Infancy Narrative,” BAR 16:02.

Endnotes

1.

When I arrived in Paris, I tried to look up Milik’s name in the Parisian telephone directory, but could not find it. A French Jesuit at the residence where I was staying in Paris helped me to search out his number on the electronic, computerized telephone directory. The name Milik did not appear there either. I suggested that we try to search according to the address, and, sure enough, we discovered the problem Milik’s name was misspelled. It appears as “Milir, Joseph,” at the specified address, and the number Shanks had given me was correct.

2.

4QSa–j

3.

4QDa–g

4.

4QTob ara–d, 4QTob Hebr.

5.

They differ somewhat from the copy of the Manual of Discipline recovered from Qumran Cave 1 (1QS). Milik has revealed some of the different readings in these texts in a review that he wrote of a commentary on IQS written by P. Wemberg-Møller (The Manual of Discipline, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah I [Leiden: Brill 1957]) in Revue Biblique 67 (1960), pp. 410–416.

6.

A list of the texts so identified can be found in Maurice Baillet, Qumran Grotte 4: III (4Q482–4Q520), Discoveries in the Judean Desert 7 (Oxford Clarendon, 1982), p. ix.