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Breaking the Missing Link

Cross and Eshel misread the Qumran ostracon relating the settlement to the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Ada Yardeni

With all due respect to my distinguished colleagues Frank Moore Cross of Harvard University and Esther Eshel of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, their reading of the recently excavated and already famous ostracon from Qumran is, in a word, impossible.

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Endnotes

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4Q212, Col. D: 16, 18, 20. See also Ada Yardeni, The Aramaic and Hebrew Documents in Cursive Script from Wadi Murabba‘at and Related Material—A Palaeographic and Epigraphic Examination (Ph.D. diss., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1991), p. 158.

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See also the other het in line 2, which is not quite as clear, but whose shape is equally persuasive.

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P. Mur. 30.18.

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N. Hever 44.2.

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N. Hever 46.4.

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N. Hever 7.48.

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N. Hever 2.6.