Endnote 1 – The Seductress of Qumran

The title “The Seductress” is based on the translation by John M. Allegro, who published the first critical edition of the poem. See Allegro, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert V, QumraÆn Cave 4 (Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1968), p. 82. John Strugnell corrected Allegro’s restoration of [hazon]ah. See Strugnell, “Notes en marge du volume V des ‘Discoveries in the Judaean Desert,’” Revue de QumraÆn 7 (1970), p. 264. The translation provided here is from Geza Vermes and is adapted to Baumgarten’s interpretation.