The Nash Papyrus—Preview of Coming Attractions

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On Wednesday, February 18, 1948, John Trever, a fellow at the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, answered a telephone call asking if the caller could bring by some ancient Hebrew manuscripts for him to look at. It was the last days of the British Mandate over Palestine, the Old City was ringed in barbed wire entanglements, and violence was rife. Trever was more concerned with the safety of the school and the people there than for old manuscripts. But, his curiosity piqued, he invited the caller, a Syrian Orthodox monk he knew named Butros Sowmy, to come […]

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Footnotes

YHWH, known as the tetragrammaton, is the four-letter personal name of the Israelite deity.

Endnotes

John C. Trevor, The Dead Sea Scrolls—A Personal Account, a revised edition of Untold Story of Qumran, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979).

Stanley A. Cooke, “A Pre-Massoretic Biblical Papyrus,” Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 25 (1903), p. 34. See also F.C. Burkitt, “The Hebrew Papyrus of the Ten Commandments,” Jewish Quarterly Review 15 (1903), p. 392.

William F. Albright, “A Biblical Fragment from the Maccabean Age: The Nash Papyrus,” Journal of Biblical Literature 56 (1937), p. 145.