The Mysterious Copper Scroll - The BAS Library

Endnotes

1.

See Karl Georg Kuhn, “Les rouleaux de cuivre de Qumran,” Revue biblique 61 (1954), pp. 193–205.

2.

The official publication is J.T. Milik, Roland de Vaux and H.W. Baker, “Le rouleau de cuivre provenant de la grotte 3Q (3Q15),” in Les ‘Petites Grottes’ de QumrÆan, ed. Maurice Baillet, Milik and de Vaux, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of Jordan 3 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1962), pp. 201–302; hereafter cited as DJD 3.

3.

John Allegro, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll, 2nd ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964).

4.

See the extremely negative review of Allegro’s book by Roland de Vaux, the chief archaeologist of Qumran and its caves, in Revue biblique 68 (1961), pp. 466–467.

5.

Milik, DJD 3, p. 282.

6.

Milik, DJD 3, p. 262.

7.

See, for example, E. Ullendorff, “The Greek Letters of the Copper Scroll,” Vetus Testament 11 (1961), pp. 227–228.

8.

The most vigorous spokesman for this position is Norman Golb. See Golb, “The Problem of the Origin and Identification of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124 (1980), pp. 1–24; “Who Hid the Dead Sea Scrolls?” Biblical Archaeologist 48 (1985), pp. 68–82.

9.

As, for example, in the Mishnaic tractate Tevul Yom 4.4.

10.

As recognized by Manfred R. Lehmann (“Identification of the Copper Scroll Based on Its Technical Terms,” Revue de Qumran 6 (1964], pp. 97–105), who cites a Tosefta, Shevi’tt 7.3, 5 and 8.1.

11.

Cf. Lehmann, “Identification of the Copper Scroll,” pp. 99–100.

12.

Lehmann, “Identification of the Copper Scroll,” p. 99.

13.

An important exception is B.Z. Lurie, The Copper Scroll from the Judaean Desert, Publications of the Israel Bible Research Society 14 (Jerusalem: Kiryat-Sepher, 1963) (in Hebrew).

14.

See Frank Moore Cross, “Excursus on the Palaeographical Dating of the Copper Document,” in DJD 3, pp. 217–221.